Urgent: How to set fixed locale for all user's request?

[giang nguyen]

Hi every body,
How can we set a fixed locale for the whole struts application so that Struts does not determine user's locale from the request?. My application does not serve users from multiple countries at once but I need a portable application that can be easily re-deployed to serve users from another country by just configuring the locale parameter in the properties file.
Many thanks

[Anonymous]

Why don't you just deliver the default property file ? then all users get the same language shown. If you want to provide more languages then add new localized property files.
Why do you want to set the locale in a property file ? Just offer a default language and nothing else.

[giang nguyen]

Originally posted by Oliver Refle:
Why don't you just deliver the default property file ? then all users get the same language shown. If you want to provide more languages then add new localized property files.
Why do you want to set the locale in a property file ? Just offer a default language and nothing else.

Thanks Oliver,
But I want to have all application resource files at once and do not have to replace/delete application resource file when the application is re-deployed to serve another country. Specifying which country/language is active is done at deployment time by a single parameter. That's much simpler.
I am thinking of setting all requests's locale to a fixed value at the preProcess method of the ActionServlet.

[Anonymous]

what you then can do is to set manually the locale setting for struts in the user session, when the session starts. This can be done with the key:
Action.LOCALE_KEY
you maybe can check out http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/api/org/apache/struts/util/package-summary.html#package_description, maybe helps.
Olli

[friso dejonge]

true, you can set it in the session.
But you may want to enforce it each request.
E.g. with overwriting the requestprocessor which is in the struts-config.xml. Create your own and overwrite the method
processPreprocess(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response)
in your own class.
its just another way of doing it