Multi-lingual system across nodes

Claim 1

In a method of providing a distributed, interactive data processing system with concurrent multi-lingual use by a plurality of users having different national language preferences, said method including the steps of establishing a message model data collection by storing message models via a message identifier primary key that is common to all usage and a secondary key that is the national language index, using a central message service to compose messages from message models received from said message model data collection using said primary and secondary keys in response to a call from an application, application control or supervisor program, and communicating the composed messages to users in their national language preference, the improvement which allows a sending process to send a message across a node in the data processing system to a receiving process and display the message in the preferred national language of the receiving user comprising the steps of : at the sending node, determining the message identification of the message to be sent, and the names of the variables in the message as well as their content, and the identification of the user and the node to receive the message; sending the message identification, the names of the variables in the message and their content to the identified receiving node; at the receiving node, placing the variable data in the correct variables to form a message model and using said central message service, composing a message from the message model using the secondary key at the receiving node; and communicating the composed message to the user at the receiving node in the national language identified by the secondary key.