The Definitive Guide to JSF in Java EE 8: Building Web Applications with JavaServer Faces

© Bauke Scholtz, Arjan Tijms 2018

Bauke Scholtz and Arjan TijmsThe Definitive Guide to JSF in Java EE 8https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3387-0_14

14. Localization

Bauke Scholtz¹  and Arjan Tijms²

(1)

Willemstad, Curaçao

(2)

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

 

JSF has always had decent internationalization support. Since JSF 1.0 you can supply java.util.ResourceBundle-based bundle files in different locales, which in turn get dynamically included as text in the web page at the declared places. Also, all JSF converters and validators have their own set of localized default messages which you can easily customize via a message bundle or, since JSF 1.2, via new requiredMessage, converterMessage, and validatorMessage attributes. JSF 2.0 adds, via ...