There is no converter for boolean values in the standard JSF libraries which isn't entirly surprising since there are so many ways of displaying a boolean value such as true and false, yes and no or even 1 and 0. Save for perhaps the last one these values will need internationalizing if they are going to appear on a page. My initial thought about how to internationalize this simplest of fields was to write a converter but then a thought occured to me I can use a little bit of EL (Expression Language) to choose a string to display. This really simple solution is shown below:

This works and is a very quick solution only requiring entries in the message bundle which you would be loading anyway to internationalize the rest of the page. When I get chance I will write a converter for booleans and make it available, until then enjoy this rare bit of simplicity.