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List:       maven-dev
Subject:    [ANN] Maven Gettext Plugin 1.1 released
From:       Steffen Pingel <steffenp () gmx ! de>
Date:       2006-01-09 2:55:02
Message-ID: 200601090355.03085.steffenp () gmx ! de
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Hi,

the XNap Commons team has recently released the initial version of the Maven 
Gettext Plugin. The plugin integrates the GNU gettext [1] 
internationalization (i18n) tools into Maven builds. Plugin documentation is 
available at 
http://xnap-commons.sourceforge.net/m1/maven-gettext-plugin/index.html .

The Gettext tools are widely used for i18n (in the Java-less world) and have 
powerful features:
 * easy extraction of user visible strings
 * marking of changed strings to enable translators to check if the
   translation still matches
 * advanced plural handling. 
 * support for many source code languages (C, Python, Lisp...) including Java.

The plugin was developed for the Gettext Commons [2] library. The lightweight 
library combines the power of the unix-style gettext tools with the widely 
used Java ResourceBundles. This makes it possible to use the original text 
instead of arbitrary property keys, which is less cumbersome and makes 
programs easier to read.

This tutorial [3] gives an overview of the Gettext Commons and describes how 
to integrate the library into existing Java applications.

A plugin for Maven 2 is being developed here: 
http://xnap-commons.sourceforge.net/m2/maven-gettext-plugin/index.html .

Steffen


[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
[2] http://xnap-commons.sourceforge.net/gettext-commons/index.html
[3] http://xnap-commons.sourceforge.net/gettext-commons/tutorial.html

-- 
Steffen Pingel - steffenp@gmx.de - http://steffenpingel.de

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