Without putting a lot of thought into it, I had the same opinion when developing my JSF 2 talk. I'm also interested in the justification for not using convention over configuration.
-Dan
Can someone explain the motivation behind using the localePrefix in the resourceIdentifier instead of the actual user's locale (more like resource bundles)? This came up in my training course last week. The current solution requires a lot of extra configuration.
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