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ResourceBundleViewResolver. You can also set these attributes on VelocityViewResolverto

make them available to all of your Velocity Views.

Listing 8-30.Adding a Number and Date Tool with Spring Locale Resolution

home.class=org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityView

home.url=/WEB-INF/velocity/home.vm

home.dateToolAttribute=date

home.numberToolAttribute=number

The names you give to the tools are the names you use to access them in your template

files, as shown in Listing 8-31. We assume that the model contains an attribute of type

java.util.Datewith the name flightDepartsOn.

Listing 8-31.Using the Date and Number Tools

<h1>Flight details</h1>

<p>

Flight departs: $date.format("E, MMMM d", $flightDepartsOn)

</p>

<p>

Cost of flight: $number.format('currency', $flightCost)

</p>

When the template is rendered in the browser using the default locale (en_GB), we get the

following response, shown in Figure 8-5.

Figure 8-5.Date and number formatting with a UK locale

And if we switch the browser language to fr_FR (French) and reload the page, voilà!

French formatting as shown in Figure 8-6.

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