Europa

An important facet of designing a program for use in different countries is the localization, or externalization, of text that is displayed by the program.

By externalizing strings, the text can be translated for different countries and languages without rebuilding the Java program.

The ResourceBundle Class in Java helps you to accomplish the above task.

Resource bundles contain locale-specific objects. When your program needs a locale-specific resource, a String for example, your program can load it from the resource bundle that is appropriate for the current user's locale.

In this way, you can write program code that is largely independent of the user's locale isolating most, if not all, of the locale-specific information in resource bundles.

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One of the notable things in this years Eclipse Release (Europa) is the way the Eclipse packages are released. In previous releases each project(WTP,DTP) had to be separately downloaded and installed. For e.g. if you wanted a XML editor in Eclipse, you had to download and install the Web Tools Platform (WTP) package. With Europa there are set of 4 well defined packages targeted towards specific segment of developers. Eclipse IDE for Java Developers This package consists of the basic IDE with superior Java editing, incremental compilation, code assist etc. Also it includes the XML Editor (from WTP package). The other packages included are: Base Platform JDT - Java Development Tooling CVS Client XML/XSD Editor Mylyn - Task Focused ...