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Dr. Bruce Haddon described the intended support capabilities of
internationalization in the Java JDK 1.1 release.
In his talk, these capabilities were described. The extent to which these
met the needs of internationalization was
examined, and evaluated from the points of view of the use of these
capabilities by programmers, and the support
that is given to subsequent localization. The Resource Bundle mechanism
was extensively described, as well as the
interaction of this with the support of Locales in the AWT, but other
areas in the JDK 1.1 pertinent to
internationalization were also surveyed. Bruce showed a page of code
that the JDK requires to fetch a
single label for a button, as well as clues as to how you could perform
the same functions with a well
thought-out class that manages most of this for you.
Dr. Bruce K. Haddon is Senior Technologist with Redcape Software, Inc., a Boulder
start-up innovating and licensing Policy Management technology,
developing a reference implementation of the technology
in Java. Bruce has been involved with internationalization and
localization issues for a decade and a half, has worked
in Australia, Germany, Switzerland, France and the US, and is beginning
to feel he understands a little Java after a
year's use.
The Java Internationalization slides are available at:
http://www.redcape.com/javai18n
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