Internationalization not working beyond one page (Struts 1)

[Agnieszka Nocek]

Hi All,

I've been trying to do language selection in Struts 1 (yes, i have to use those). However, after sucessfully changing the language on the login page, after logging in the language just reverts to the default. Can you tell me what i'm doing wrong here? What i need to do is select the language for the whole portal from the login page. Here's what I've done so far:

1) I have 3 property files with translated messages:
default ApplicationResources.properties
english ApplicationResources_en.properties
russian ApplicationResources_ru.properties

2) Entry to struts-config.xml

	<action path="/locale" type="xxx.LanguageSelectAction" parameter="method">
		<forward name="success" path="login.page" redirect="true" ></forward>
	</action>

...

        <message-resources parameter="xxx.ApplicationResources"/>

3) LanguageSelectAction class

public class LanguageSelectAction extends DispatchAction {

	public ActionForward english(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
			HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
			throws Exception {
		request.getSession().setAttribute(Globals.LOCALE_KEY, Locale.ENGLISH);
		return mapping.findForward("success");
	}

	public ActionForward russian(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
			HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
			throws Exception {
		request.getSession().setAttribute(Globals.LOCALE_KEY, new Locale("ru"));
		return mapping.findForward("success");
	}

}

4) Links in login.jsp:

<html:link page="/locale.do?method=english">English</html:link>
<html:link page="/locale.do?method=russian">Russian</html:link>

Any idea what i'm doing wrong here? Any advice is appreciated! I might be making some obvious beginner error, since i've only been using struts since yesterday:P