Delivery Tier I18N support

I18N support in the Hippo's delivery tier (HST) is very simple. Take the following steps:

To the web.xml add:

  <!-- I18N  -->
  <context-param>
    <param-name>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.localizationContext</param-name>
    <param-value>messages</param-value>
  </context-param>

To your src/main/resources add the I18N bundles, for example:

messages_en_US.properties

home.title=Home

messages_nl_NL.properties

home.title=Thuis

To the ' hst:hosts' add the default locale, for example:

/hst:hst/hst:hosts:
  /hst:locale: en_US

and to the Mounts that should have a different locale add the hst:locale as well, For example:

/hst:hst/hst:hosts/dev-localhost/localhost/hst:root/nl:
  /hst:locale: nl_NL

Now, in your templates you can use fmt:message tag without first setting the locale. This is done by the HST already. For example:

JSP

<fmt:message key="home.title"/>

Freemarker

<@fmt.message key="home.title"/>

Note that you thus should not use <fmt:setLocale value="some_locale" scope="page | request | session | application"/>. An exception is for rss feeds, as these always need the locale 'en-US' : <fmt:setLocale value="en-US"/>