System and method for processing JavaScript resource files

• US 20060117257A1
• Filed: 11/30/2004
• Published: 06/01/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kurapati, Kaushal S., Hasson, Laurent D., Li, Jianren
• Application Number:
  US11/000,270
• Publication Number:
  US 20060117257A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/262
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

A system and method that locates and utilizes JavaScript national language resource files. A national language processing system for providing national language specific resources to be displayed in the Web page, including: a Web resource manager for providing a location of a JavaScript national language resource, wherein the Web resource manager includes a hash table for storing and querying previously located JavaScript national language resources; and a system for issuing an http request to a server to locate the JavaScript national language resource if the location of the JavaScript national language resource does not exist in the hash table.

Claims

1. A national language processing system for providing national language specific resources to be displayed in a Web page, comprising:

a Web resource manager for providing a location of a JavaScript national language resource, wherein the Web resource manager includes a hash table for storing and querying previously located JavaScript national language resources; and

a system for issuing an http request to a server to locate the JavaScript national language resource if the location of the JavaScript national language resource does not exist in the hash table.

2. The national language processing system of claim 1, further comprising a degradation system that attempts to locate a truncated version of the JavaScript national language resource if an original version of the JavaScript national language resource was not located.

3. The national language processing system of claim 2, wherein the degradation system defaults to a generic English version of the JavaScript national language resource if both the original version and truncated version were not located.

4. The national language processing system of claim 1, further comprising a include statement generation system for transforming a resource dependent statement in the Web page to comprise an include statement, wherein the include statement specifies a required version of the JavaScript national language resource.

5. The national language processing system of claim 1, wherein the Web resource manager takes as input a locale, a base file name, and a base uniform resource locator (URL), and outputs a relative path to the natural language JavaScript resource file.

6. The national language processing system of claim 5, wherein the base URL is constructed from a server name, port number and context root, which are obtained by issuing servlet requests.

7. The national language processing system of claim 1, wherein the Web resource manager utilizes a key to store and query location data in the hash table, and wherein the key comprises a string that includes a base file name and a locale.

8. A program product stored on recordable medium that allows national language specific resources to be displayed in a Web page, comprising:

means for providing a location of a JavaScript national language resource, wherein the providing means includes a hash table for storing and querying previously located JavaScript national language resources; and

means for issuing an http request to locate the JavaScript national language resource if the location of the JavaScript national language resource does not exist in the hash table.

9. The program product of claim 8, further comprising means for attempting to locate a truncated version of the JavaScript national language resource if an original version of the JavaScript national language resource was not located.

10. The program product of claim 9, further comprising means for defaulting to a generic English version of the JavaScript national language resource if both the original version and truncated version were not located.

11. The program product of claim 8, further comprising means for transforming resource dependent statements in the Web page to comprise an include statement, wherein the include statement specifies a required version of the JavaScript national language resource.

12. The program product of claim 8, wherein the providing means takes as input a locale, a base file name, and a base uniform resource locator (URL), and outputs a relative path to the natural language JavaScript resource file.

13. The program product of claim 12, wherein the base URL is constructed from a server name, port number and context root, which are obtained by issuing servlet requests.

14. The program product of claim 8, wherein the providing means utilizes a key to store and query location data in the hash table, and wherein the key comprises a string that includes a base file name and a locale.

15. A method for including national language specific resources in a Web page, comprising:

searching a hash table for a location of a JavaScript national language resource;

if the location is found in the hash table, generating an include statement in the Web page;

if the location is not found in the hash table, issuing an http request to locate the JavaScript national language resource;

if the location is determined by the http request, storing the location in the hash table and generating an include statement in the Web page.

16. The method of claim 15, comprising the further step of:

searching for a truncated version of the JavaScript national language resource if an original version was not found by the http request.

17. The method of claim 16, comprising the further step of:

searching for a generic English version of the remotely located JavaScript national language resource if both the original and truncated versions were not found.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the step of searching the hash table includes the step of using a key that comprises a string which includes a base file name and a locale.

19. A method for deploying an application that includes national language specific resources in a Web page, comprising:

providing a computer infrastructure being operable to;

determine a location of a JavaScript national language resource by providing a hash table for storing and querying previously located national language JavaScript resources; and

issue an http request to locate the JavaScript national language resource if the location of the JavaScript national language resource does not exist in the hash table.

20. Computer software embodied in a propagated signal for including national language specific resources in a Web page, the computer software comprising instructions to cause a computer to perform the following functions:

search a hash table for a location of a JavaScript national language resource;

if the location is found in the hash table, generate an include statement in the Web page;

if the location is not found in the hash table, issue an http request to locate the JavaScript national language resource;

if the location is determined by the http request, store the location in the hash table and generate an include statement in the Web page.