Task overview: Internationalizing interface strings (localizable-text API)

 

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

 

Overview

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

 

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. Use 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 Java archive (JAR) file.

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

7. Deploy and manage the application.

 

Results

Your application is deployed with localized text.

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Identifying localizable text

Creating message catalogs

Composing language-specific strings

Preparing the localizable-text package for deployment

 

Related concepts

Globalization

 

Related tasks

Assembling applications
Task overview: Globalizing applications

 

Related Reference

Globalization: Resources for learning