Today’s software developers need to be conscious of their companies’ efforts to go global and familiar with how to implement the related requirements in their code. With Java, this support is built into the language, yet even today, most experienced Java developers lack the knowledge to fully exploit that functionality. In this, our second in a series of articles on Java’s support for internationalization (i18n), we cover the Locale class in detail and take a brief look at some of the problems inherent in client/server i18n programming.