Re: [babel-dev] getting started

[matt5574@xxxxxx]

Hi Kit Lo,

thank you for your helpful response. More and more I understand the
concepts of babel. However, I'm still struggling with the
documentation so please see this reply as a try to improve the quality
of the given documents by providing a feedback.

On http://wiki.eclipse.org/Babel_/_Server_Tool_Development_Process
section "Setting up a Development Environment" you'll find the
sentence: "Steps to setting up a Babel Development Environment on
Linux." So what's the confusing thing here? Well, are we talking about
a dev environment to contribute to the babel project itself (java
code) OR is it about contributing translations into a database without
modifying the underlying system.

The terms "code" and "development" are used in a manner that makes it
hard for me to distinguish whether we're talking about actual java
development or translation contributions. While reading the border
between the USAGE of the "product" babel (install, contributions,
integration) and it's own development seems blurred to me. What I
expected was something like a "product" to be installed in a certain
way to be used as translation host, accessible via web interface etc.
and another product/mechanism to activate a certain rcp application to
take advantage of this host and ANOTHER document explaining the
babel-development-process itself.

What I'll do now is to start experimenting to see which of my beliefs
is true or if I have to learn a third way :-)

Thank you and all others for your efforts.
Matthias

2009/11/2 Kit Lo <kitlo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Matthias,
>
> Welcome to the Babel project!
>
> The Babel project is divided into 3 areas
> - A set of runtime tools for Eclipse developers to simplify the globalization tasks
> - A web-based translation server environment for organizations to perform translation of their own projects
> - Using our Babel web-based translation server setup, we invite Eclipse users around the world to help translate the Eclipse projects
>
> This link contains some information on how to setup your own Babel development environment:
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Babel_/_Server_Tool_Development_Process
>
> Here are links for more information about the Babel project:
> http://babel.eclipse.org/babel/
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Babel
>
> Hope that helps! If you have further questions, please post them here in this mailing list. We have many talented contributors in the Babel community all over the world. We will try our best to help!
>
> Regards,
> Kit Lo
> IBM Eclipse SDK Globalization Technical Lead
> Eclipse Babel Project Co-lead
>
>
> From: matt5574@xxxxxx
> To: babel-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: 10/28/2009 07:18 AM
> Subject: [babel-dev] getting started
> Sent by: babel-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> ________________________________
>
>
> Hi,
>
> my colleagues and me would love to take advantage of the Babel project
> / Babel concept to translate our RPC application. However, I didn't
> find any how to's or getting started's so far explaining the usage of
> Babel for a certain product.
>
> Is Babel intended to translate Eclipse only? We would like to
> externalize our Strings in a way that the customer can translate it
> himself. This would significantly improve the localization process.
>
> Cheers.
> Matthias
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