[jbosstools-dev] How to keep track of ResourceBundle keys?

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

> G'day all,

Hi Sean!

For those who don't know who Sean is, then he is a i18n guy that suddenly  
showed up
and wanted to help us i18n JBDS and by consequence also JBoss Tools - so  
help him
out if he gets lost ;)

> I gather that a lot of the Tools code already uses externalised strings  
> (ie using ResourceBundles to fetch strings from .properties files), and  
> I don't think it uses the English text as the key (the way GNU gettext  
> does in Linux land), but rather the usual Java convention of artificial  
> string keys like "SharedIntroConfigurer_gettingstarted_nav".

Yes, it uses the standard eclipse way (this is not ResourceBundles in the  
code,
but the property files are the same)

> I personally prefer the English-as-key approach (smaller code changes,  
> somewhat more readable code, and no artificial keys to keep track of),  
> but artificial keys have their advantages too, and of course it's  
> important to maintain a consistent approach.

sure, gnu text seem to be cool but I haven't seen a tooling stack for it  
that
will work on windows where most of our devs (and users) are currently.

> Do you have any tools or scripts that you use to manage the artificial  
> keys, make sure they're unique, remove obsolete keys, things like that?  
>   How do you deal with this sort of thing?

No, not in particular. But eclipse has a few validation checks for some of
these things. I haven't used them much so can't even really point to them  
;)

/max