[eclipse-dev] New platform NLS support

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eclipse 3.1 M5 has introduced a new
resource bundle mechanism that is significantly more efficient than the
standard Java property resource bundle mechanism.  This new mechanism
stores each messages as a static field whose value is bound at runtime
based on the current locale.  The result is that message keys are
no longer stored in memory as strings, and the overhead of the Hashtable
used by property resource bundle is eliminated.  More details on the
new API, along with analysis of its performance and a conversion tool for
those using property resource bundles, is found here:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-core-home/documents/3.1/message_bundles.html

Questions on this new API are welcome
on the platform-core-dev mailing list.