Internationalization and Localization

Service Provider uses a standard Java message resource bundle for display strings in the UI. This resource bundle is normally included in the idmspe.jar file and must be extracted if you plan to customize message strings for display in the default en_US locale.

$ cd $WSHOME/WEB-INF/classes
$ jar xvf ../lib/idmspe.jar com/sun/idm/idmx/msgcat/IDMXMessages.properties

The format of the resource bundle is the standard key =value format. In the example page.title.home=Home , page.title.home is the key and Home is the value associated with the key. The value string may be parameterized as standard java.text.MessageFormat strings.

There are two types of message keys in the resource bundle: those used by Struts/Tiles and those used by the Identity Manager forms engine. Keys recognized by Struts/Tiles will NOT be recognized by the Identity Manager forms engine, and vice versa.

Struts/Tiles message keys use the “dot notation” format, such as page.title.home. Message keys for the Identity Manager forms engine and for email notification templates must contain an underscore character and no spaces, such as IDMX_login_field_username. For more information on using the Identity Manager forms engine keys, see Deployment Guide.

For locales other than en_US, the resource bundle file contains the same key values as the default file and appropriate value string translations. For example, the message resource bundle strings for the fr_FR locale would go in $WSHOME/WEB-INF/classes/com/sun/idm/idmx/msgcat/IDMXMessages_fr_FR.properties .