ResourceBundle with Database backend

Hi all,
We're busy creating a web application that needs different localization.
ResourceBundles would probably be the best thing to use for this. However,
we would like to use a database as the backend for the ResourceBundle.
This would make changing and adding translated strings much easier. We
would like our client to be able to do this himself, using a front end we
will write.
From what I understand of ResourceBundles, we would have to create a
ResourceBundle class for each translation. We'd like to create just one
subclass of ResourceBundle however, which handles all translations. Is
this possible? I can't find any examples of how this should work..
thanks for thinking along, please tell me if my question isn't completely
clear or something like that,
Ilja Booij
MMS2P B.V.

Hi Ilja,
I don't know if I understand your problem correctly.
I did a resource bundle based on DB. I did one class that extended ResourceBundle and this one implements all the read and write to the DB.
But in order to use on my web applications I have to extend my DatabaseResourceBundle class and just implement one simple method that is the name of the resource that I wanna store on the DB.
I still have to create the classes for each language I want, but there is not code on those classes. The resources are required in order of the resource bundle know which language should read or write on the db.
I am using Struts on my web applicataions, so I also extended the MessageResourcesFactory to use my DatabaseResourceBundle implementation. It's now using all the bundles from the DB and we can change the messages on the db through a web tools to edit bundles. The messages are cached for N minutes specified by a JMX constant that can be changed at any time. or you can call a reload method to force to expire the bundle cache.
Hope I helped and gave you some ideas for implementation.
Regards,
Bruno

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3) Think about an open-source TM app like OmegaT
4) Do you do all of your translations in-house? If not, ask your suppliers how they work.
5) But really, if you don't have a completely obsessive person in charge of making sure everything is up to date, you're asking for trouble. I'm reminded of a quote by Edward Tufte who was talking about project management; I can't remember the quote, but the idea boiled down to the fact that you can do just as good a job with whiteboards as you can with databases. At least right now you know that you haven't kept all versions up to date... if you were housing all your content in a database, then the update process is somewhat hidden from you, and you wouldn't know if something broke unlesss you caught it in QA. If you're not doing all the updates... then you can't do good QA.This is a recipe for disaster.
5b) Establish a good workflow with whatever tools you have (database, whiteboards, little strings with knots tied in 'em, notches carved in the thighbones of extinct birds of prey, etc.) and give someone the power to sanction/punish/fire people who disobey workflow rules. I am not kidding.
I will make more useful suggestions (suggestions more useful than 5b, at any rate) in the near future.

How can I populate a pdf with database data?

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Actually, if you export it in the right format then you won't need a script
at all.
You can import data directly into fields from a plain-text file via Tools -
Forms - More Form Options - Import Data...
I believe the format is tab-delimited with the field names in the first row
and their values in the second.

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