An application that can present information to
users according to regional cultural conventions is said to be globalized:
The application can be configured to interact with users from different localities
in culturally appropriate ways. In a globalized application, a user in one
region sees error messages, output, and interface elements in the requested
language. Date and time formats, as well as currencies, are presented appropriately
for users in the specified region. A user in another region sees output in
the conventional language or format for that region. Globalization consists
of two phases: internationalization (enabling an application component
to use regional conventions) and localization (implementing a specific
regional convention). This
product supports globalization through the use of its localizable-text API
and internationalization service.
Procedure
- Make sure the server runtime environment is properly configured.
For more information about supported locales and character encodings,
see Working with locales and character encodings.
- Implement message catalogs in your application by using the localizable-text
API.
This product supports the maintenance and deployment of centralized
message catalogs for the output of properly formatted, language-specific (localized)
interface strings.
For
more information about the localizable-text API, see Task overview: Internationalizing interface strings (localizable-text API).
- Implement more extensive locale support by using the internationalization
service.
With the internationalization service, you can manage
the distribution of the internationalization information, or internationalization
context, that is necessary to perform localizations within Java™ 2
Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application components. Supported application
components also include Web service client environments and Web service-enabled
enterprise beans.
For
more information about the internationalization service, see Task overview: Internationalizing application components (internationalization service).