I18N for web-application which contents can be updated
Hi,
I have read several articles and chapters regarding I18N, however I still consider myself new to this topic mostly because I have never developed anything that supported I18N.
Basically I know how use the ResourceBundle to load strings from different properties files according to the locale of the user.
However I now want to develop a website that contains different tutorials. The tutorials can be written in different languages. A website is usually deployed in a WAR file, and thus it is not something as easy as to put all the text of a tutorial inside a properties file. I was thinking of having to use some database backend.
Anyway my question is; How to implement I18N in a web application which contents can be updated?
Regards,
Sim085
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sim085a] at [2007-10-3 8:41:10]
I don't know why you believe you can't use properties files deployed via a WAR file for content like this? I work with a very large corporate web site, where we deploy a web application that is sometimes updated daily. We deploy that using EAR files containing our properties files (currently 10 different languages).
What is the difficulty you see in this approach?
Well, usually when I develop a new feature in my web application I justdo hot swapping, that is, delete the previous war file and place the new one. If I have properties within that war file then all the updates would be deleted!!
> I think they want the users to be able to enter in
> text via the UI and they want to know the best
> approach to supporting mutiple langauges.
Exactly!! :)
> I found this whitepaper informative but I have not
> yet tried the approach described.
> http://www.inter-locale.com/IUC19.pdf
>
> Gary
Thanks Gary .. I will read that white paper.
Regards,
Sim085
