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  • From: TomazM <>
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  • Subject: Re: discovery service RC1 multi language support
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:06:39 +0100

Chad La Joie wrote:
> 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.

But you could have many metadata which could have different lang
parameter what then.
>
> 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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