Your database schema will largely depend on the amount/type of data that you need to
internationalize...are you internationalizing entire documents, paragraphs of text,
just messages, all three? Do you need localized images too?
Once you settle on a database schema, you can write a custom MessageResources
implementation to fetch your messages. Your impl will be used by Struts for the
<bean:write> tag and any other Struts classes/tags which fetch localized content. The
MessageResources implementation factory is specified by an ActionServlet init
parameter:
<init-param>
<param-name>factory</param-name>
<param-value>com.mycompany.strutsstuff.myubercoolresourcesfactory</param-value>
</init-param>
You can easily extend the MessageResources if you wish, and write other custom tags to
retrieve, say, XML-based localized documents, if need be. If you search the archive(
http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user%40jakarta.apache.org/ ), you should find
plenty of posts on the topic, and I believe someone has written a "standard" DB-based
implementation of MessageResources to replace the file-based one.
hope this helps,
Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 12:02 PM
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> Subject: Re: Internationalisation and Database/EJB data
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> You need to design multiple language ability into your
> database schema. I
> would create a view to make the queries easier.
>
> David
>
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> >From: "Jordan Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List"
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> >To: "Struts-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Internationalisation and Database/EJB data
> >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:50:18 +0100
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >What is the best way to make the data in my Database tables/EJB's
> >internationalised? Is there a standard pattern for having seamlessly
> >internationalised data in a database that I can use with struts?
> >Essentially, based on the user's locale I want different
> data displayed and
> >unfortunately, resource files won't suffice.
> >
> >thanks
> >
> >Jordan
> >
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