Thanks Charlie.
Genius. Another simple solution saves the day.
I presume you also mean that I should map all incoming requests to a
servlet that then examines the PathInfo and issues the requestDispatcher.
Magnificent solution. Thank you indeed.
Stephen.
"Cox, Charlie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:use request.gePathInfo() to get the path. Then
parse the string and use
RequestDispatcher.forward("/products/Toys/index.jsp?myparam="+langString).
The forward() will not be subject to further filter processing.
Charlie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Riek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 11:27 AM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: help with multilingual JSP sites pls. using a Filter to
> rewrite the URL ?
>
>
>
> Sorry, I'm not making myself clear here. My JSPs do exactly
> as you suggest
> so that I have one JSP serving up French and English pages,
> depending on
> the language that the user selected on my site.
> Here is the problem explained very simply. I have a sitemap
> as follows:
> /en
> --> /Products
> --> Toys/index.jsp
> --> Decoration/index.jsp
> /fr
> --> /Products
> --> /Toys/index.jsp
> --> /Decoration/index.jsp
>
> As you can see, this is braindead. If I wish the
> functionality of the English section
> of the site to be the same as that of the French part of the
> site, then any change
> to a JSP in the 'en' part must be repeated within the 'fr'
> site. This is not
> scalable and is tedious.
>
> Instead, it would be much better if I had one site structure
> which served up the
> whole site.
>
> /Products
> --> /Toys/index.jsp
> --> /Decoration/index.jsp
>
> Any changes to functionality only have to be made in one
> place and both the
> french viewers and english viewers will experience the same
> user experience,
> just in different languages. (I use the properties files as
> you suggest to
> serve up different languages).
>
> The problem however is "how does /Products/Toys/index.jsp"
> know whether
> the user is viewing in English or French ? The easy way would
> be to have the
> user select a language on entering the site and then store
> the language
> preference in a cookie which I check before serving up pages.
> However,
> users may access the site from a search engine or from direct
> URLs due to
> promotions. I would like a request for
> /en/Products/Toys/index.jsp to be
> sent to /Products/Toys/index.jsp but with a 'lang' parameter
> set to 'en'.
> Likewise for the french part of the site.
>
> Surely somebody has had to encounter this sort of problem in
> dealing with
> pan-European sites ?
>
> Stephen.
>
>
>
> Triptpal Singh Lamba wrote:One way you
> can do this is using property files.
>
> Prop_ file name _ language code.properties
>
> So for say abc.jsp , you have abc_en.properties and abc_fr.properties.
>
> At comple time the JSP calls a class you write at server
> which gives say String languageCode =
> ObjectName.getLaguageCode(param 1 ,param 2); %>
>
> Then all JSP elements are picked from there.
> Thanks
> Tript Singh
>
>
>
>
>
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