Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

We are not going to try to localize the JSP pages.

I do agree that the DS code should have a mechanism for accepting a 
locale parameter, other than the one provided by the browser, for use 
with what metadata information is displayed for the use case that you gave.

TomazM wrote:
> Chad La Joie wrote:
> > This was already brought up and addressed.  The Discovery Service will
> > use the  locales that your browser says it supports in order to display
> > the appropriate information from metadata.
> >
> > We are not adding localization support to the JSPs files. 
> But I think that JSPs need to support localization or even that users
> can change lange.
>
> If user is on not his own computer(locale could be set for different
> language) so user could wish to change the language for Discovery Service.
>
>  Those are
> > examples.  Deployers are expected to change them to include whatever
> > branding and text they wish.
> >
> > TomazM wrote:
> > > On 
> > >
> > >  list I post the following request:
> > >
> > > I think WAYF it should have support for multi language, not by editing
> > > jsp
> > > pages for one language. Because people could be from very different
> > > Institutions from different country's.
> > >
> > > For version DiscoveryService-2.0-TP1 I done some customization:
> > >
> > > version a:
> > > It automatically detect user locale set in browser(default is eng)
> > >
> > > realization:
> > > I use struts ability for bundle(struts message-resource) and modify the
> > > wayf.jsp, wayferror.jsp to use messages and add some jars, bundels,
> > > struts configuratin, web.xml modification and index.jsp. This version
> > > doesn't need any modification in SP(wayfURL). So if you want to have
> > > support for different language you just create bundle for your locale
> > > and put them in massages folder.
> > >
> > >
> > > Now I do customization for discoveryservice-1.0-rc1-src.zip distribution
> > >  , they told me to send patch on this list.
> > >
> > > I create a zip archive which include patch(DS.RC1.01.patch), if you wont
> > > to apply this patch you should do the following:
> > >
> > > 1) Unpack the archive into folder where is discovery service(DS_HOME)
> > > 2) run command:
> > >
> > > DS_HOME>>ant -buildfile patch.xml
> > >
> > > 3) build distribution package as usual:
> > > DS_HOME>>ant
> > >
> > > 4) Deploy war in Tomcat
> > >
> > > 5) In SP configuration(shibboleth.xml) you could bind to wayfURL with
> > > WHAY  or without WHAY servlet mapping
> > >
> > > wayfURL="http://Tomcat_SERVER/DiscoveryService/WAYF";
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > wayfURL="http://Tomcat_SERVER/DiscoveryService/";
> > >
> > >
> > > I suggest that you apply patch on clean installation, beacuase it can
> > > override ds.home,... Because I create patch on hole directory structure
> > > from clean distribution of discoveryservice-1.0-rc1-src.zip.

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