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. A working Date/Time widget is available and more information is in JIRA: