Kick off localization in JSF

[Russell Bateman]

In my .jsp, I've got:

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<f:view>
<f:loadBundle basename="com.mydomain.catalog.messages" var="msg" />
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<h2> <h:outputText value="#{msg.catalog.title}" /> </h2>
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...and running the file I see

Caused by:
org.apache.jasper.el.JspPropertyNotFoundException - /login.jsp(22,8) '#{msg.catalog.title}' Property 'title' not found on type java.lang.String

Of course, I've got a file on the (Eclipse) path src/com/mydomain/catalog/messages.properties (as well as one in French). I also tried messages_en.properties (and using "messages_en" in place of "messages" in loadBundle), but to no avail. In those message files I've got:

catalog.title = DVD Catalog

In faces-config.xml I have:

    <application>
    	<locale-config>
    		<default-locale>en</default-locale>
    		<supported-locale>en</supported-locale>
    		<supported-locale>fr</supported-locale>
    	</locale-config>
    	<message-bundle>com.mydomain.catalog.messages</message-bundle>
    </application>

Would someone explain the conceptual link between having messages, having an <application> tag in faces-config.xml and doing a loadBundle in the JSP? I'd like to figure this out, but so far, neither Google nor experimenting has helped. Or a link to someplace that explains.

Profuse thanks in advance,

Russ Bateman

[Tim Holloway]

"#{msg.catalog.title}" is EL for "msg.getCatalog().getTitle()". Not what you want.

Without doing anything as intelligent as actually checking, I believe that the proper syntax is: "#{msg['catalog.title']}, since I'm pretty sure that "msg" is a map, and that's how you lookup map keys in EL.

[Russell Bateman]

Thank you very much. I had seen that construct here and there while Googling, but not understood what it was specifically for. One article in particular misled me into the syntax I chose. It seemed reasonable and I moved on puzzled as to why it wasn't working. I'm not certain how long it would have been before it dawned on me, so I thank you very much for this.

Russ