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JSTL bundle tag <fmt:bundle>

In this tutorial you will learn about the JSTL <fmt:bundle> tag.

<fmt:bundle> tag is used to avail the resource for using the formats. A resource bundle is loaded by this tag which will be used by its tag body.

Attributes of <fmt:bundle>

basename : This is a required attribute used for specifying the resource bundle base name. Basename is a resource name, follows the same component separator dot (.) as the package uses for specifying the fully qualified class name. It does not uses the any type of suffixes such as .properties, .class etc.
prefix : This is an optional attribute that may be used for adding to the beginning to the value of the key of <fmt:message> action. for example <fmt:message key=”user.name”/>. Here user is a prefix.

Example :
An example is being given here will demonstrate you how to use the <fmt:bundle> tag. In this example I have created a Properties file named myapp.properties that contains the key-value pair. Value of key are the English characters. Then created a JSP page named index.jsp into which I have set the locale using the <fmt:setLocale> tag. And then uses the <fmt:bundle> tag to load the bundle resource from the resource variable. So as an output you will see the values written in English language.

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" prefix="fmt" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>JSTL fmt:bundle Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<fmt:setLocale value="en"/>
<fmt:bundle basename="myapp">
<fmt:message key="Name"/><br/>
<fmt:message key="Address"/><br/>
<fmt:message key="Number"/><br/>
</fmt:bundle>
</body>
</html>

myapp.properties

Name=Dinesh
Address=Noida
Number=9988998899

Output :

When the execution process will be completed successfully an output will be displayed on your eclipse browser as :

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Dinesh Rajput

Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!