I'm right in the midst of writing just such a task, and I think it's pretty straightforward (assuming you understand how to modify JBoss Portal interceptor chains :-) The current JBoss component that determines the Locale associated with the current request (org.jboss.portal.core.aspects.server.LocaleInterceptor) does so by looking at 1) the user's account preferences, and 2) the user's browser preferences (in that order). My intent is to extend that component to look for a preferred Locale in the session before trying the other sources (there's actually a comment in the source code alluding to this strategy). A portlet can then just provide an action to set a Locale in the session. Hope this makes sense. Of course all your portlets and themes need to be Locale-aware for this to have any effect. Some of the stock JBoss portlets (e.g. Navigation) are not. p View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3973283#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...