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>On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Arieh Markel wrote:
>
>> We are about to release a product on which we include Tomcat 3.2.
>>
>> Our testing and localization people have been banging at our product
>> and come up with several remarks about how lookup for a localized
>> resource (file: html, gif, javascript, etc) are being done.
>>
>> I have in the past contributed localization code to the 3.2
>code base.
>>
>> I have received a couple of remarks from the localization people.
>>
>> The current way that localization is done on the code I contributed
>> to 3.2 was what I called 'file-based' lookup.
>>
>> An alternative method that I implemented in our application (but have
>> not contributed to Jakarta yet) is 'docbase-based' lookup.
>>
>> Here is a brief overview of both mechanisms:
>>
>> Assume locale in request is: fr_CA
>> Assume locale of where tomcat is set: en_US
>>
>>
>> requested path
>>
>> <docbase>/dir/.../index.html
>>
>> file-based: (path/<filebasename>[locale].filetype)
>>
>> 1. <docbase>/dir/.../index_fr_CA.html
>> 2. <docbase>/dir/.../index_fr.html
>> 3. <docbase>/dir/.../index_en_US.html
>> 4. <docbase>/dir/.../index_en.html
>> 5. <docbase>/dir/.../index.html
>>
>>
>> docbase-based: ([locale]/path/filename)
>>
>> 1. <docbase>/fr_CA/dir/.../index.html
>> 2. <docbase>/fr/.../index.html
>> 3. <docbase>/en_US/.../index.html
>> 4. <docbase>/en/.../index.html
>> 5. <docbase>/dir/.../index.html
>>
>>
>> File-based lookup works in a manner similar to how
>ResourceBundle does.
>>
>> Docbase-based lookup is similar to how JavaHelp organizes the files.
>>
>> ----
>>
>> Implementation proposal:
>>
>> a. create a class 'org.apache.tomcat.util.Localization' (for 3.x).
>> 'org.apache.catalina.util.Localization' (for 4.x).
>>
>> b. implement two static methods:
>>
>> public static String getLocalizedPathFileBased (
>> String dir, String path, Locale loc,
>Locale fbLoc)
>>
>> public static String getLocalizedPathDocBaseBased (
>> String dir, String path, Locale loc,
>Locale fbLoc)
>>
>>
>> c. For 3.x: in StaticInterceptor, add "localization" as a property
>> with valid values of:
>> "file" "docbase"
>>
>> d. For 4.x: (I have just begun looking at the code yesterday - would
>> appreciate some pointers from the 4.x experts of where the
>> serving of resource is done)
>>
>> ----
>>
>> Any opinions ?
>>
>> Much of the code has already been written and has been tested.
>>
>>
>> Arieh
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