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Bug 306285

Summary: [Article] Integrating Java Beans to EMF to build internationalized models
Product: Community Reporter: Marco Savard <savard.marco>
Component: ArticlesAssignee: community.articles-inbox <community.articles-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: wayne.beaton
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Description Marco Savard CLA 2010-03-17 17:00:01 EDT 
Topic: EMF, modeling, internationalization, Java Beans 

   Building software for an international market implies specific challenges, because people speaking different languages and having different cultures will use the software.  Model elements have different names according the language, the country, or even the community, that we call a locale.  Model elements may be important for a particular locale, and irrelevant from another one. 

  The standard Java library includes the java.beans package, which gives solutions for localization problems.  Bean descriptors render display names, which change according the current locale. Giving user-dependent information is exactly what Java Beans has to offer. 

  Unfortunately, the EMF framework and the Java Beans technology are two separate worlds. EMF does not include software component to access Java Beans functions.   
  
  This article explains how to integrate the Java Beans library to the EMF framework in order to build EMF-based applications that take advantage of Java Beans features.
Comment 1 Wayne Beaton CLA 2010-05-25 13:25:47 EDT 
Sounds grand. Have you got a draft that we can review? Or a table of contents?
Comment 2 Wayne Beaton CLA 2014-10-06 15:59:43 EDT 
We're no longer taking articles for Eclipse Corner. Further, this bug has been in the system with little activity for some time. Feel free to reopen.