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> ## Java Platform Localization Classes

> In the Java 2 platform, `java.util.Locale` represents a specific geographical, political, or cultural region. The string representation of a locale consists of the international standard 2-character abbreviation for language and country and an optional variant, all separated by underscore _ characters. Examples of locale strings include fr (French), de_CH (Swiss German), and en_US_POSIX (United States English on a POSIX-compliant platform).

> Locale-sensitive data is stored in a `java.util.ResourceBundle`. A resource bundle contains key-value pairs, where the keys uniquely identify a locale-specific object in the bundle. A resource bundle can be backed by a text file (properties resource bundle) or a class (list resource bundle) containing the pairs. A resource bundle instance is constructed by appending a locale string representation to a base name.

> For more details on internationalization and localization in the Java 2 platform, see

>     http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/index.html

> In the Web technology chapters, the Duke's Bookstore example contains resource bundles with the base name `messages.BookstoreMessages` for the locales `en_US` and `es_ES`. See Internationalization Tags for information on the JSTL i18n tags.

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