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Plug-in Reviews

How To: Access Subversion Repository in Eclipse

by Venu on June 26, 2008

Subversion is an open source revision control system which aims to be a replacement for CVS.

Many of the open source projects are on Subversion repository including Apache projects.

Eclipse by default comes with a CVS client and if you need to Subversion client, this is what you need to do

Download and Install the Subclipse Plugin

Subclipse is an Eclipse Team Provider plug-in providing support for Subversion within the Eclipse IDE.

You can install the plugin for Eclipse 3.2/3.3 using the following update site

http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.4.x

You need to input the above URL in

Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install

If you want to install the plugin ...

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Plug-in Review : ResourceBundle Editor

by Venu on July 14, 2007

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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