Title:     How to translate the portal
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The labels in the portal are maintained in [Resource Bundles][1]. The default language of the portal is English. In this example you are going to add french translations to the portal.

##1) Get Rave

There are multiple ways to build your custom Apache Rave instance, but the quickest is to use a Maven WAR overlay.  See [Extending Rave](rave-extensions.html) for an example overlay.

##2) Add your translation

  - Create a file `messages_fr.properties` in `src/main/resources`.
  - Copy the contents from the [default language file][2] into your new file
  - Translate the values

##3) Build and test

Build your custom Apache Rave project and deploy it.
You will see the French translations in the portal if the preferred language of your browser is French.

![Setting French as preferred language in Firefox](/images/screenshot_preference_preferred_language.png)


[1]: http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/resbundle/concept.html
[2]: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/rave/trunk/rave-portal-resources/src/main/resources/messages.properties