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From: Vic Cekvenich <vic_cekvenich@baseBeans.com>
Subject: Re: Internationalization on a larger scale.
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 09:43:02 -0400
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There is a DB driven resource bundle on struts.sf.net.

Sebastien Flacher wrote:

>Hi Linus,
>
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>>As a single textfile is used, when there are several thousand entries it
>>will become difficult to manage.
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>this link has details on Resource Bundles inheritance
>http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/ResourceBundles/
>
>So far I find the Struts framework pretty good in terms of response time
>on JSP pages loaded with <bean:message key="app.text"/>
>I am not sure about the implementation details.
>
>If the Locales you need at contained into ISO-8859-1
>you shouldn't have much problems.
>
>If not, both reading incoming Form data & outputing dynamic
>has interesting challenges.
>Let me know if you need help with these.
>
>Seb.
>
>
>"Linus Nikander" <linus@nikander.net> wrote in message
>news:bdu24r$4ct$1@localhost.localdomain...
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>>I'm pretty new to Struts usage so it might be i'm overlooking an obvious
>>solution to this. The thing I've been looking at Internationalization
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>issues
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>>concerned with Struts. The thought of being able to change the whole
>>language of a site simply by changing the locale of the user really
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>appeals
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>>to me. All examples i've seen so far use parallel versions of the
>>ApplicationResources.properties file to accomplish this. Whilst this may
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>be
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>>feasibel for a fairly small site I don't see how this solution would hold
>>    
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>up
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>>for a large site (with serveral hundred concurrent requests to anyone of
>>several thousand pages).
>>
>>The problems/questions I can see are:
>>
>>As a single textfile is used, when there are several thousand entries it
>>will become difficult to manage.
>>Can updates be made, during operation, to the contets. What happens if a
>>user requests the files content while it is being edited ?
>>Is the textfile cached for performance, or will concurrent calls compete
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>for
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>>the same file-resource ?
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>>As I'm probably not the first person who is trying to use Struts on a
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>larger
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>>scale for internationalization issues I thought someone might have a
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>better
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>>solution. Suggestions ?
>>
>>//Linus Nikander - linus@nikander.net
>>    
>>

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