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 On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Kito Mann <kito.mann(a)virtua.com&gt; wrote: > 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. > --- > Kito D. Mann -- Author, JavaServer Faces in Action > http://twitter.com/kito99 http://twitter.com/jsfcentral > JSF 2 Seminar Oct 6tth: http://www.regonline.com/jsf2seminar > JSF Summit Conference Dec 1st-4th in Orlando: http://www.jsfsummit.com > http://www.JSFCentral.com - JavaServer Faces FAQ, news, and info > +1 203-404-4848 x3 > -- Dan Allen Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action Registered Linux User #231597 http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Dan