Localisation - Getting Started

When completing the last tutorial, you may have noticed the text right at the top of the screen "Welcome to Jetspeed". The text comes from a Java localised resource file. This tutorial will show you how to create your own localised resources to easily support multiple languages without hard-coding messages in your Java source code.

In this tutorial, we will:

Lets get started. From the JPortal /tutorial distribution root directory, type:


maven -Dtutorial=2 jetspeed:deploy

Recommend bringing up these configuration files in your editor:


  • 1. tutorials/2/TurbineResources.properties.merge
  • 2. src/java/org/apache/jetspeed/tutorial/modules/localization/JportalLocalization_en.properties
  • 3. src/java/org/apache/jetspeed/tutorial/modules/localization/JportalLocalization_fr.properties
  • 4. tutorials/2/templates/vm/navigations/htmlbottom-jportal.vm
  • 5. tutorials/2/JetspeedResources.properties.merge

since we will reference them in tutorial 2.