Explicit ordering of the tab display, is accomplished via page properties that are defined in your *-object.xml ( Section 6.2.1, “*-object.xml” ). Ordering is accomplished using the order tag at the page level as a page property.

<page>
   <page-name>default</page-name>
   <properties>
      <property>
         <name>order</name>
         <value>1</value>
      </property>
   </properties>
      ...
</page>

JBoss Portal uses Resource bundles to localize the tab naming for international users. The resource files can be found in jboss-portal.sar/conf/bundles and have the names Resource_*.properties

The resource files provide a mapping between the name of the page, as defined in the *-object.xml, and a localized value to display in the tab. For example, our standard bundled pages: Home, Admin, Test, News, are mapped as such in the Resource_fr.properties file, for French users:

PAGENAME_default=Accueil
PAGENAME_Admin=Admin
PAGENAME_Test=Test
PAGENAME_News=Actualités

So the mapping pattern is PAGENAME_[Name in *-object.xml]=[translated value]