Sure, it's attached (if there ends up being a problem posting it that way, I'll
resend it inline). This was purely a mental excercise. I don't normally use
modules so it hasn't been extensivley tested. Oh, and it really only works for
swapping between the default message resources for each module.

Quoting Carlos S�nchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Could you post your JSTLSwitchAction ?
> 
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: Kris Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Enviado el: mi�rcoles, 15 de octubre de 2003 4:25
> > Para: Struts Users Mailing List
> > Asunto: Re: Bean:write to c:out conversion for something in 
> > .properties file
> > 
> > 
> > Wendy Smoak wrote:
> > 
> > > Okay, apparently I can't read.  It was a <bean:message> tag, not a
> > > <bean:write> tag!  Since <bean:message> WAS ported to Struts-EL, I 
> > > assume that there is something you can do with 
> > <bean:message> that you
> > > cannot do with <fmt:message>. What would that be?
> > 
> > The biggest difference is that <bean:message> is hooked into the
> > internals of Struts. I'm guessing this is most evident when switching 
> > modules. However, I've hacked a quick JSTLSwitchAction that seems to 
> > keep the default JSTL localization context in sync with 
> > module changes.
> > 
> > > I'm trying to use as many JSTL tags as possible, and I
> > generally use
> > > the Struts-EL README.txt file to tell me what I should use.
> >  In this
> > > case, the README.txt file would have led me to use the
> > Struts-EL tag
> > > when there is an equivalent JSTL tag.
> > > 
> > > I'm not entirely conviced that I even _need_ to put labels in a
> > > .properties file.  Is i18n the only reason to do so?  I'm 
> > 99.9% sure
> > > this webapp will *never* need to be displayed in other than English.
> > 
> > One other reason would be the added level of indirection. In other
> > words, it keeps string literals out of your code/page. Even 
> > for a single 
> > language, you may want to change the actual text represented 
> > by a key. 
> > If that text needs to appear in more than one place, it's a 
> > lot easier 
> > to just modify the property file.
> > 
> > --
> > Kris Schneider <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > D.O.Tech       <http://www.dotech.com/>

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