Creating Language Keys

Displaying Messages and Errors

Step 1 of 3

Modern applications should place messages and form field labels in a language keys files that hold multiple language translations. Here, you’ll learn how to provide a default set of English language keys for your application. For more information on language keys and providing automatically translated language keys, see Generating Translations.

Language keys are stored in the Language.properties file included in your guestbook-web module. Language.properties is the default, but you can create more translations by appending the ISO-639 language code to the file name (e.g., Language_es.properties for Spanish or Language_de.properties for German). For now, stick to the default language keys.

Follow these steps to create your language keys:

1. Open /src/main/resources/content/Language.properties in your guestbook-web module. Remove the default keys in this file.

2. Paste in the following keys:

   entry-added=Entry added successfully.
   entry-deleted=Entry deleted successfully.
   guestbook-added=Guestbook added successfully.
   guestbook-updated=Guestbook updated successfully.
   guestbook-deleted=Guestbook deleted successfully.
   

3. Save the file.

Your messages are now in place, and your application can use them. Next, you’ll add them to your action methods.