[rules-dev] Eclipse IDE BRMS properties files

[Michael Neale]

I am not sure what package - I would think the UI elements are spread over a
few packages, the best bet is just to pick one and start with it, and then
follow from there to other UI strings.

What I did was let the IDE find all the strings, and then go through and
replace concatenations with formatted strings:
MessageFormat.format("hello {0}", "world") instead of "hello " + world
(using java.test.MessageFormat).
Once I had done that, only THEN did I go through and i18n things (if it
wasn't a UI element I just put the //NON-NLS comment to tell the tools to
ignore it from then on) .

In terms of i18n conventions - common sense works - the usual properties
files/naming convention of course, nothing crazy, just load it up as a
resource bundle (which works in GWT as well, but runtime slightly
different). IDEA gives long names to keys, eclipse seems to use short ones
(I prefer the key to be readable in code - so you have some idea what the
message says).

So Kris - could you list a few packages that Hitoshi might want to look at
to start i18n?

I wonder how eclipse chooses what bundle to use - do we have to have
multiple editions of the plugin in the various languages that people
choose?


On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Hitoshi Ozawa <htshozawa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thought so. If everybody's busy, just tell me the packages I should be
> looking at, I18N conventions, and directions to set up to compile. I
> checked out the Tool's directory but not sure which ones I should be
> modifying.
> FYI, I I18Ned Mule and their IDE as well as some WS02 software.
>
> H.Ozawa
>
> 2010/2/8 Michael Neale <michael.neale at gmail.com>:
> > The Eclipse IDE has not been i18n'ed as yet - (someone correct me if I am
> > wrong).
> > Kris - how long do you think it would take someone to do this? I think
> with
> > Guvnor took me 2 days (spread out over 4 as I did other things to avoid
> > boredom). Mostly it was correcting concatenated strings to use a format
> > string.
> > Any volunteers? (I might have a look at it if no one else does).
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Hitoshi Ozawa <htshozawa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm trying to translate the properties files for the Drools BRMS
> >> portion of the Eclipse IDE but can't find the properties files nor
> >> able to grep the Strings.
> >> Would greatly appreciate if you'll direct me to finding the where the
> >> Strings are defined.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >> H.Ozawa
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