Internationalization
Summary
- Make it easier to do by moving non-internationalization related items out of .properties files and into .config files
- Adopt Localized Date/Time Widget for all tools
Proposal: configuration files
Move all configuration-related properties (i.e. anything which should never be translated) into a <filename>.config file, as opposed to <filename>.properties file. These config files can be loaded as follows:
import java.util.Properties; ... Properties p = new Properties(); p.load(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("filename.config"));
Proposal: Date/Time Widget
RSF (http://www2.caret.cam.ac.uk/rsfwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Roadmap) includes support for an internationalized date/time widget. Unfortunately, most of Sakai tools use Velocity or JSF. We need to implement this date/time widget for both Velocity and JSF. More info is at Date widget improvements and also in JIRA: