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[e4-dev] Eclipse Internationalization with the new message extension and the Eclipse translation pattern

Hi everybody,

I'm not sure if everybody is aware of the message extenstion that was created by Tom Schindl and extended by me.

I would say it is an evolution of the existing internationalization stuff in Eclipse, that introduces a lot more flexibility.

Currently it is contributed to the e4.tools.services plugin, but IMHO this is the way internationalization should look like in future releases of Eclipse. So it should be included into the platform itself. The current code is a summary of workarounds that were necessary because of missing features in Java 1.4. But with Java 1.6, these workarounds can be solved elegantly (loading of ResourceBundles).

Using the new message extension it even becomes possible to change the locale at runtime, using OSGi services and the dynamic injection in E4.

The last few months Tom and I worked on the solution, making it flexible, configurable and stable. We also blogged about it.

http://blog.vogella.com/2013/05/03/eclipse-internationalization-part-14-current-situation-by-dirk-fauth/

We would like to see this solution in the Eclipse Platform itself. So with this mail we want to start the discussion if there is anything that speaks against that.

So please let us know what you think.

Greez,
Dirk & Tom

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