Formating Currencies and Dates in Struts 2

Create a Global message property so that the formating can be applied to all the pages name it globalMessages.properties

item.listprice = {0,number,$##0.00}

Now add the property to struts.properties

struts.custom.i18n.resources=globalMessages

Now how to Call the formating string in JSP where listprice comes from the stack and the formating string from the global resource we set earlier.

<s:text name="%{getText('item.listprice')}"> <s:param name="value" value="listprice"/> </s:text>

And now the Output

$12.20

Make sure to put the property files in the correct folder of your project.