How do you build a multi-language web site?

Question

A friend of mine is now building a web application with J2EE and Struts, and it\'s going to be prepared to display pages in several languages.

I was told that the be

Answer 1

Java web applications support internationalization using the java standard tag library.

You've really got 2 problems. Static content and dynamic content.

for static content you can use jstl. It uses java ResourceBundles to accomplish this. I managed to get a Databased backed bundle working with the help of this site.

The second problem is dynamic content. To solve this problem you'll need to store the data so that you can retrieve different translations based on the user's Locale. (Locale includes Country and Language).

It's not trivial, but it is something you can do with a little planning up front.