If you need to make gear content (text labels or user messages, for example) be both configurable and localizable, you can do this by observing the following guidelines:
- Do not put any text that might appear on the screen (labels, user messages, etc.) into a gear instance parameter. Instead, put them in resource bundles. 
- Make the resource bundle name be a gear parameter. You can have a separate resource bundle for each gear instance if you want. 
- Be sure not to change the response locale, so that the locale and - charsetspecified by the- PageDispatcherServletare preserved.
Once you have set up your gears in this manner, you would then specify a particular resource bundle and locale in your gear page fragments. For example:
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt" %> <fmt:bundle basename=my.portal.Resources/> <fmt:message id="finishButton" key="finishButton"/>

