Re: [Bodington-developers] i18n 2

[Matthew B. <mat...@co...>]

Alistair Young wrote:
> I've updated it all to use ResourceBundle:
> 
> http://www.weblogs.uhi.ac.uk/sm00ay/?p=86
> 
> Before you can use the new system, you'll have to delete your
> useroptions.html compiled class - that's the only one that's localised at
> the moment.
> 
> I've created a new "res" dir in the root of the tree:
> res/templates
> res/facility - e.g. for holding class strings
> 
> I haven't modified the build file to copy the res dir to WEB-INF/classes
> yet. Will do that tomorrow.
> 
> The file paths dependencies are all gone now so it should work on windows.

Cool.

> One consequence of the resources as ResourceBundles in the classpath is,
> if you change one, it does funny things to bod, like logs you out! They
> are classes after all. So, if you change a string, you have to reload the
> webapp.

The context should only reload if it is set to it is set to 
automatically. I'd agree that this isn't the best situation.

> The nice thing is they now use Locale, which is derived from
> User.getLanguage(). The templates now only have to specify what the class

[..snipped..]

All sounding very nice.


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