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Tasks: Internationalizing interface strings (localizable-text API)

This topic summarizes the steps involved in implementing message catalogs through the localizable-text API. WAS v8.5 supports the maintenance and deployment of centralized message catalogs for the output of properly formatted, language-specific (localized) interface strings.

1. Identify localizable text in the application.
2. Create the message catalogs necessary for the locales to be supported by the application.
3. In the application code, compose the language-specific strings for output.
4. Using an assembly tool, assemble the 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 Java EE application.
7. Deploy and manage the application.

Results

Your application is deployed with localized text.

Subtopics

• Identify localizable text
  The first step in localizing strings in an application component is identifying the best candidates for translation.
• Create message catalogs
  Perform this task to begin the localization of strings in an application component.
• Compose language-specific strings
  Perform this task to complete the localization of strings in an application component.
• Prepare the localizable-text package for deployment
  The LocalizableTextEJBDeploy tool is used to create a deployment JAR file for the localizable text service. You must deploy the enterprise bean in each enterprise application that requires support for localized text.
• Identify localizable text
  The first step in localizing strings in an application component is identifying the best candidates for translation.
• Create message catalogs
  Perform this task to begin the localization of strings in an application component.
• Compose language-specific strings
  Perform this task to complete the localization of strings in an application component.
• Prepare the localizable-text package for deployment
  The LocalizableTextEJBDeploy tool is used to create a deployment JAR file for the localizable text service. You must deploy the enterprise bean in each enterprise application that requires support for localized text.

Related concepts:

Globalization

Related

Assemble applications
Tasks: Globalizing applications
Deploy enterprise applications

Reference:

Globalization: Resources for learning

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