What is Spring Boot-Internationalization?

Spring Boot-Internationalization is nothing but it’s a framework that aims to build spring applications and make them available for users around the world. Every user might be proficient in their languages. So, this framework makes your spring application available to everyone. Spring Boot-Internationalization has many features that assist all programmers in internationalizing their applications.

Examples of websites that use the Internationalization Concept:

• Amazon Application in French
• Amazon Application in English

Prerequisites of the Topic:

• Good understanding of Java Programming language as Spring Boot Uses Java libraries as well.
• Sound Knowledge in Spring Boot Framework.
• A basic understanding of terms like Internationalization, resource files, localization, and locale would be a plus.

Kew features of Spring Boot-Internationalization

• Resource files consist of localized textual data and other data, and this is used in Spring Boot.
• The Resource files are named according to the local code of language that it contain. Example- messages_en.properties for English and messages_fr.properties for French.
• To retrieve the localized textual data from the resource files there’s an interface called MessageSource.
• LocaleResolver is an interface that helps in identifying the user’s current language.

Whenever there are HTTP requests on the web the LocaleChangeInterceptor acts as an interceptor that changes the user’s locale according to the request parameters.

Note: Locale is nothing but the information of the users like their language, geographical region etc.

Before understanding Spring Boot-Internationalization, we must know what internalization in general means. Internationalization is an action or process of making something international which means making things adaptable or available everywhere. In this article, we will be discussing Internationalization in Spring Boot.