[jbosstools-dev] XModel and i18n

[Viacheslav Kabanovich]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Flanigan" <sflaniga at redhat.com>
To: <jbosstools-dev at lists.jboss.org>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:37 AM
Subject: [jbosstools-dev] XModel and i18n

Hi, Sean

XModel is an internal model for a number of editors and views.
Most strings in org.jboss.tools.common.model are internal constants not 
subjected to i18n.
Let me put them into XModelInternalConstants interface to reduce the number 
of strings in code.

Slava

> Hi
>
> Of the 26,000 unreviewed strings, about 5,100 of them are in the "common" 
> module, and 4,700 of them are in org.jboss.tools.common.model*
>
> Can you give me some idea of what XModel is?  Is there some sort of 
> architectural overview I should read?  I obviously have a lot to learn 
> about how JBoss Tools fits together!
>
> I gather XModel is used to build most of the JBoss Tools UI from .meta 
> files.  Is it meant to be available for other uses as well, or is it 
> basically an internal feature?  (It doesn't seem to be listed as a feature 
> on the update site.)  And is much of the text inside XModel shown in the 
> UI when it is used by other features?
>
> To put it another way, does it make sense to externalize/translate the 
> text in org.jboss.tools.common.model, or would it be better to leave it in 
> English?
>
> Regards
>
> Sean.
> -- 
> Sean Flanigan
>
> Senior Software Engineer
> Engineering - Internationalisation
> Red Hat
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