Description: Creating a global application isn't particularly difficult, but it does require you to become familiar with the most common international problems and their solutions. The problems associated with creating an international application are basically the same from one computing environment and language to any other. Solutions are roughly equivalent as well, although their implementations obviously differ among the various computing environments and programming languages. This article gives an overview of internationalization topics and concepts in a Java programming environment, and covers the following features available in the Java Development Kit 1.1.
