TapiJI on the Eclipse DemoCamp Vienna (November 2010)

T ooling for a gile and p rocess i ntegrated J ava I nternationalization Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology

Mission
What is Internationalization
Problems in practice
Our solution
Roadmap of future tasks
Involving the community
Outline Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology

We aim to make the concept of
Java Internationalization more convenient
for agile software development projects.
Mission Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology

Concept for building multilingual software :
Separate culture-sensitive content
Culture-sensitive resources are provided in multiple translations
Internationalization Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology

Results in one single version of software :
Reduces effort of maintainance, support and evolution
That can dynamically adopt its output language
Support for new cultural regions can be added by plugging in new resource translations .
Why Internationalization? Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology

Problems in Practice
Internationalization increases the complexity of development and the resulting product
Requires well-founded knowledge of cultural differences
Needs to be lived by the entire development team
It‘s hard to keep language specific artifacts up-to-date
Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology

Typical Faults 1/3
Hard coded constant string literals within source code
Translation requires source code changes. Only one language per version of the source file possible
constant string literal Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology

Typical Faults 2/3
Reuse externalized string literals in different contexts
Meaning of phrases depends on context ual information
Example:
to focus  to concentrate
to focus  to zoom in on sth.
Typically, it‘s hard/impossible to find a translation that covers all contexts!

Incomplete Internationalization of program sections
High effort in refactoring! Hard to detect through testing.
Typical Faults 3/3 constant literal externalized literal Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology

The Vision
Address previously described problems
Provide assistance for Internationalization
Make it easier to handle
Increase the quality of the product

TapiJI
Productive environment integrated in the Java IDE
Offers context-sensitive and interactive assistence
No additional framework required

The Architecture TapiJI Core TapiJI Tools Eclipse PDE based Tooling TapiJI Translator Eclipse RCP Application Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology

TapiJI Core
TapiJI Core:
Resource auditing
Detection of broken Internationalizations
Resource-Bundle management
Core Tools Translator Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology

On-the-fly coding assistance :
Auto-completion of Resource-Bundle keys
TapiJI Tools Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology Core Tools Translator

In-code inspection/browsing of Resource Bundles
TapiJI Tools Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology Core Tools Translator

TapiJI Tools
Reporting of broken Internationalizations
Quick-fixes for addressing these problems
Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology Core Tools Translator

TapiJI Tools
Resource Bundle View :
Browsing
Searching / Fuzzy matching
Core Tools Translator Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology

TapiJI Tools
Extended version of the Essiembre 1 Resource-Bundle editor
Core Tools Translator Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology 1) http://eclipse-rbe.sourceforge.net

TapiJI Translator Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology Core Tools Translator

Roadmap
Replacing the current Resource-Bundle editor
 Licence TapiJI under Eclipse Public License (EPL)
Increase openness and extensability for
Easily enhancing support for new editors
Add new context-sensitive smart helps
Involving the community for:
Getting feedback about the current work
Cooperatively working on new ideas

Involving the Community
Open sourcing and hosting at EclipseLabs
Stefan Strobl & Martin Reiterer Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO) | Faculty of Informatics | Vienna University of Technology http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/tapiji/

Involving the Community
Hopefully we will meet at the EclipseCon 2011
Publicity within the community

The end
Thank you for your attention!

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