Internationalised labels in JSF/Facelets

Question

Does Facelets have any features for neater or more readable internationalised user interface text labels that what you can otherwise do using JSF?

For example, with plain JSF, using h:outputFormat is a very verbose way to interpolate variables in messages.

Clarification: I know that I can add a message file entry that looks like:

label.widget.count = You have a total of {0} widgets.

and display this (if I'm using Seam) with:

<h:outputFormat value="#{messages['label.widget.count']}">
   <f:param value="#{widgetCount}"/>
</h:outputFormat>

but that's a lot of clutter to output one sentence - just the sort of thing that gives JSF a bad name.

Answer 1

Since you're using Seam, you can use EL in the messages file.

Property:

label.widget.count = You have a total of #{widgetCount} widgets.

XHTML:

<h:outputFormat value="#{messages['label.widget.count']}" />

This still uses outputFormat, but is less verbose.