Need a hint on internationalization

[Mike Himstead]

Hi,

I want you to give me a hint on i18n regarding Struts. I do know the general mechanism with ResourceBundles where the application determines the language with the client's default locale. Unfortenately, the book I used to learn Struts has no info about a more sophicticated approach: which mechanisms does Struts provides for switching locales at runtime so the user can choose his language by himself? My first guess is that I just create a new action to achieve this, the action then uses a cookie to persist the made choice. But what exaclty has the action to do to switch the language?

[Merrill Higginson]

You're on the right track. The Struts Action class (the superclass of your Action class) has a setLocale() method. By calling it, you can override the default behavior of struts, which is to use the browser's default locale to set the locale.

[Mike Himstead]

Thank you your answer, Merrill

[Nyanas Kandhan]

For an example on Struts internationalization you can refer here.

Struts I18N using locale.
Struts Internationalization using browser settings.

regards
Struts Developer