[babel-dev] language pack building tool contribution by Team Azure

[Kit Lo <kitlo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One of the goals of the Babel project
is to develop tools to make the job of
globalizing Eclipse projects easier. When we started the Babel project
last year, I challenged a group of 4 co-op students at University
of Ottawa (Team Azure) to develop some
globalization tools for Eclipse.

After about a year's design, coding and reviews,
they've implemented some very useful language fragment build tools. First,
an internationalization wizard for generating language fragments. This
wizard fits very nicely into PDE, and therefore have been integrated and
contributed to PDE recently (see bug 201998).

Another part of the tool they developed was
a language pack building tool, which includes a command line interface
and Ant interface for building language packs. Team Azure is considering
to contribute this tool to the Babel project. They will be opening a Bugzilla
bug to go through the IP review in the next few days.

Personally, I think this tool will be very
useful to the Eclipse community for globalizing Eclipse projects. I really
appreciate their hard work for the past year and want to give a big thanks
for their contribution.

Babel team members, please watch for this
up coming bug and comment on the contribution.

Thanks,
Kit Lo
IBM Eclipse SDK Globalization Technical Lead
Eclipse Babel Project Co-lead