Internationalizing interface strings (localizable-text API)

 

Overview

This product supports the maintenance and deployment of centralized message catalogs for the output of properly formatted, language-specific (localized) interface strings.

This topic summarizes the steps involved in implementing message catalogs through the localizable-text API.

 

Procedure

  1. Identify localizable text in your application.

  2. Create the message catalogs that are necessary for the locales to be supported by your application.

  3. In your application code, compose the language-specific strings for output.

  4. Using an assembly tool, assemble your application code as one or more application components.

  5. Prepare the localizable-text package for deployment with your localized application. In this step, you create a deployment JAR file.

  6. Assemble the application modules and the deployment JAR file into a J2EE application.

  7. Deploy and manage the application.

 

Result

Your application is deployed with localized text.

 

See also


Identifying localizable text
Creating message catalogs
Composing language-specific strings
Preparing the localizable-text package for deployment

 

See Also


Internationalization

 

Related Tasks


Assembling applications
Task overview: Internationalizing applications

 

See Also


Internationalization: Resources for learning