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This service is used to manage and display content in different languages of a node which contains many language versions.
The configuration of this component can be found here.
<component>
<key>org.exoplatform.services.cms.i18n.MultiLanguageService</key>
<type>org.exoplatform.services.cms.i18n.impl.MultiLanguageServiceImpl</type>
</component>