The i18n Cookbook - recipies for a global society

 Problem:

You want to know what holidays are common for a locale.

Solution:

Icu4j contains a system to help the Java developer handle international holidays.  The Holiday class is simple to use, and has failry complete data.

To get an Array of all Holidays for Mexico:

//Get a ULocale

ULocale locale = new ULocale("es_MX");

//Get an array of Holidays

Holiday[] holidays = Holiday.getHolidays(locale);