Replacing hard-coded strings using Netbeans

Question

Hi
Iam using Netbeans 4.0 to replace all the hard-coded string with resourceBundle.getString("...") and prepare the properties file. Thing is it picks all the contents within double quotes and replaces them.
To avoid replacing all the entire strings, there is an option with name, Non-Internationalization format, using which we can specify the regular expression that can be used for filtering/ignoring the strings that falls under that regular expression.
For example, if we use "System.out.println" in the regular expression, then the hard-coded strings within println statements are ignored and are not replaced, as one in interested only in translating user-interface strings and not debugging strings. The problem is, the utility searches for the specified word (System.out.println) and ignores the hard-coded string present in that line and replaces the strings in all the remaining lines in the println statement. I need the entire string in the println statement to be ignored and not replaced.
Can anyone suggest me a solution to ignore the complete string in the println statement.
Rgds
Jagan

Answer 1

Hello Tae,
In your specific case, i'll go with your Dev Leader since the value returned by the method is not controlled inside the program. If sometime down the line the method returns '1' instead of 'X', if you use the CONSTANT you can change it in the declaration part without bothering about where it is used.
But you should use meaningful names while defining your CONSTANTS for e.g., instead of C_X use C_TRUE.
Also bear in mind all organisation data(e.g., Plant, Company Code, Controlling Area etc.) should be defined as CONSTANTS & not hard-coded. In these cases i prefer using the variant tables(TVARVC) to maintain the constants.
I don't want to start a flame-war here, but imho although use of CONSTANTS increases the maintainability but too much usage of them reduces the readability. With all due respect to those "over diligent" QA reviewers AUTHORITY-OBJECT 'S_TCODE', ASSIGN COMPONENT 'MATNR' et al. are not hard-codes, please don't ask us to declare them as constants
BR,
Suhas
PS: I remember there was an SDN blog on the same topic & it was definitely an interesting read.