Internationalization of the Portal

Internationalization can be achieved by providing translations of the following text elements:

• labels
• content of combo boxes
• messages

Elements of the Stardust Portal views are identified via entries in their according resource bundles. The resource bundle which is used depends on the preferred language set for your browser.

Resource Bundles

Resource bundles for languages are supplied for the Stardust Portal. They reside in the according portal JAR files, either in the add-ons/ipp-portal/lib folder of your Stardust installation, in case you set up your working environment as described in chapter Installing Stardust Features, or in the lib folder of the org.eclipse.stardust.ide.wst.facet.portal_xxx plugin:

• ipp-business-control-center.jar - for the Stardust Portal Business Control Center Perspective.
• ipp-administration-perpective.jar - for the Stardust Portal Administration Perspective.
• ipp-workflow-perspective.jar - for the Stardust Portal Workflow Perspective.
• stardust-web-modeler.jar - for the Stardust Portal Business Process Modeler.
• ipp-views-common.jar - for the Stardust Portal common views messages.
• ipp-portal-common.jar - for the Stardust Portal common portal messages.
• ipp-web-ui-common.jar - for the Stardust Portal Web UI common portal messages.

Unzip the according portal JAR file, copy the existing resource bundles and add the according language locale to the name (e.g. "_de"). E.g. for adapting messages displayed in the Business Control Center perspective:

1. Unzip the ipp-business-control-center.jar file.
2. Copy the business-control-center-messages.properties file and rename the copy to business-control-center-messages_locale.properties, whereby locale is the locale for the language you like to use. (Translated resource bundles are already provided for Chinese and German.)
3. Edit the business-control-center-messages_locale.properties and translate the entries accordingly.
4. Save the resource bundle and add it to the ipp-business-control-center.jar file.

Determine the locale to use for your Stardust Portal by setting the preferred language used for your browser.