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I've been thinking for a while now of creating a separate module for
all i18n loggers and message bundles. There are a few advantages to
this;<br>
<ol>
<li>To update translations you only need to build and deploy one
module. This could possibly be used to limit the languages
shipped too, e.g. a customer only wants English and Spanish no
need to ship German, Chinese, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese
as well.<br>
</li>
<li>Allow generic messages, e.g. "parameter_name is null", to be
reused. I know support doesn't like the reuse, but it seems
silly to have 50 different methods that all the same thing that
translators have to translate 50 times.</li>
<li>Help stop messages id conflicts. I am going to use a new
annotation to help with this too.</li>
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<p>The only real disadvantage I can think of is every module will
have a dependency on it. Also we would have be to strict about not
letting anything except loggers and message bundles be added to
the module just because it's shared across all modules.<br>
</p>
Just wanted to open it up for discussion in case there is something
I'm missing before I open a JIRA for it.
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
James R. Perkins
JBoss by Red Hat</pre>
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