Graphical user interface for managing resource bundles for internationalization

• US 6,920,630 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2002
• Issued: 07/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Jackson, Jared Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhen, Wei Y.
• Application Number:
  US10/291,594
• Publication Number:
  US 20030110469A1
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• Field of Search: 717168-178, 717/100, 717/116, 717/118, 717/110, 704 1- 10, 715/500, 715/517, 715/700
• US Class Current: 717/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

An interactive graphical user interface (GUI) based system is described for the development, creation, and management of Java resource bundles. Furthermore, the GUI provides an application that works across platforms to eliminate repetitive tasks and errors that often occur in an internationalized development process. The resource bundle files are presented to the user in a tree-based GIJI component, and users are provided with the ability to make a single change to resources that is then applied across all applicable resource bundle files. The GUI also allows for exporting, importing, and merging of resource files.

Claims

1. A system to create and manage translations of content, said system comprising:

a. a graphical user interface;

b. a file structure instantiated using said graphical user interface, said file structure visually organizing one or more resource bundles, one or more base class resource files, and associated resource files, wherein said resource files comprise untranslated/translated content, wherein said organizing is language based;

c. a set of graphical templates, said graphical templates instantiated by said graphical user interface, said templates providing access to create and manage said resource bundles, base class resource files, and associated resource files in a chosen language, and

wherein modifications to said resource bundle(s), base class resource file(s), and associated resource file(s) in a chosen language are either applied across all applicable resource bundle files or only in a specific resource file in a resource bundle.

2. A system to create and manage translations of content, as per claim 1, wherein said graphical templates additionally provide access to statistics associated with said resource bundle.

3. A system to create and manage translations of content, as per claim 1, wherein said graphical templates additionally provide access to a search interface for searching resource bundle information.

4. A graphical user interface for managing resource bundles, said interface comprising:

a. a first panel rendering a tree representation of one or more resource files in a resource bundle, said tree representation comprising a root node representing a resource bundle, a base class resource file node representing a base class resource file of said resource bundle, and one or more resource file nodes representing resource files in said resource bundle; and

b. a second panel rendering either resources based upon one or more groups or a list of untranslated resources in said bundle wherein one or more resource keys associated with said untranslated resources are grouped by corresponding resource files, said second panel additionally allowing users to add or modify said resources and groups,

whereby an instance affecting a resource file in said resource bundle is reflected across a remainder of resource files in said resource bundle.

5. A graphical user interface for managing resource bundles, as per claim 4, wherein said second panel is additionally capable of rendering statistics associated with said resource bundle.

6. A graphical user interface for managing resource bundles, as per claim 5, wherein said interface allows exporting of said statistics associated with said resource bundle.

7. A graphical user interface for managing resource bundles, as per claim 5, wherein said rendered statistics comprise number of resource files, resource groups, and resource items.

8. A graphical user interface for managing resource bundles, as per claim 7, wherein said rendered statistics associated with said resource items additionally identify the number of duplicate resource keys.

9. A graphical user interface for managing resource bundles, as per claim 4, wherein said second panel is additionally capable of rendering a search interface for finding any of the following:

resource keys, translations, or comments.

10. A graphical user interface for managing resource bundles, as per claim 4, wherein said interface is rendered based on a changeable locale, said locale based upon language preferences.

11. A graphical user interface rendering a resource bundle manager comprising:

a. a first panel for rendering a hierarchical node structure, said hierarchical node structure defining a fallback order of translation lookups, said structure comprising;

i. a root node representing a resource bundle;

ii. a base class resource file node representing a base class resource file of said resource bundle; and

iii. at least one resource file node representing a resource file of said resource bundle;

b. a second panel for rendering any of the following;

i. resources based upon one or more groups and means for managing said groups and resources comprising adding a group or resource, deleting a group or resource, or editing a group or resource;

or

ii. a list of untranslated resources in said bundle and resource keys of untranslated resources grouped by corresponding resource files; and

whereby said resource files are managed either by updating changes made throughout each resource file in said resource bundle or by updating changes made to only a specific resource file in said resource bundle.

12. A graphical user interface rendering a resource bundle manager, as per claim 11, wherein said second panel is additionally capable of rendering statistics associated with said resource bundle.

13. A graphical user interface rendering a resource bundle manager, as per claim 12, wherein said interface allows exporting of said statistics associated with said resource bundle.

14. A graphical user interface rendering a resource bundle manager, as per claim 12, wherein said rendered statistics comprise number of resource files, resource groups, and resource items.

15. A graphical user interface rendering a resource bundle manager, as per claim 14, wherein said rendered statistics associated with said resource items additionally identify the number of duplicate resource keys.

16. A graphical user interface rendering a resource bundle manager, as per claim 11, wherein said second panel is additionally capable of rendering a search interface for searching resource information.

17. A graphical user interface rendering a resource bundle manager, as per claim 11, wherein said interface is rendered based on a changeable locale, said locale based upon language preferences.

18. A resource bundle manager comprising:

a. a graphical user interface rendering a hierarchical node structure, said hierarchical node structure defining a fallback order of translation lookups, said structure comprising;

i. means for representing a resource bundle;

ii. means for representing a base class resource file of said resource bundle; and

iii. means for representing a resource file of said resource bundle;

b. means for rendering resources based upon one or more groups and means for managing said groups or resources comprising any of;

adding a group or resource, deleting a group or resource, or editing a group or resource;

c. means for rendering a list of untranslated resources in said resource bundle and resource keys of untranslated resources grouped by corresponding resource files; and

d. means for managing said resource files by either updating any changes made to only a specific resource file in said resource bundle or updating any changes made throughout each resource file in said resourced bundle.

19. A resource bundle manager, as per claim 18, wherein said resource bundle manager further comprises means for rendering statistics associated with said resource bundle.

20. A resource bundle manager, as per claim 18, wherein said resource bundle manager further comprises means for exporting said statistics associated with said resource bundle, and said exported statistics is in any of the following formats:

text, HTML, or XML.

21. A resource bundle manager, as per claim 18, wherein said resource bundle manager further comprises means for rendering a search interface for searching resource information.

22. A resource bundle manager comprising means for visually organizing language based versions of specified content, said visual organization means comprising:

a. means for rendering a tree-based graphical user interface component, said tree-based graphical user interface component comprising a root node representing a resource bundle, a base class resource file node representing a base class resource file of said resource bundle, and one or more resource file nodes representing resource files in said resource bundle;

b. means for rendering any of the following;

resources based upon one or more groups or a list of untranslated resources in said bundle wherein one or more resource keys of untranslated resources are grouped by corresponding resource files;

c. means for managing said resources and groups, said means for managing comprising any of the following;

adding, deleting, or editing said resources or groups; and

d. means for dynamically updating all applicable resource files in said resource bundle following a change to any of said resource files.

23. A resource bundle manager comprising means for visually organizing language based versions of specified content, as per claim 22, wherein said resource bundle manager further comprises means for rendering statistics associated with said resource bundle.

24. A resource bundle manager comprising means for visually organizing language based versions of specified content, as per claim 22, wherein said resource bundle manager further comprises means for rendering a search interface for searching information associated with said resource bundle.

25. A resource bundle manager comprising means for visually organizing language based versions of specified content, as per claim 22, wherein said visual organization means is rendered based on a changeable locale, said locale based upon language preferences.

26. An article of manufacture comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein which manages a resource bundle, said medium comprising:

a. computer readable program code for rendering a hierarchical node structure, said hierarchical node structure defining a fallback order of translation lookups, said structure comprising;

i. a root node representing a resource bundle;

ii. a base class resource file node representing a base class resource file of said resource bundle; and

iii. at least one resource file node representing a resource file of said resource bundle;

b. computer readable program code for rendering resources based upon one or more groups and computer readable program code for changing said groups or resources comprising adding a group or resource, deleting a group or resource, or editing a group or resource;

c. computer readable program code for rendering a list of untranslated resources in said bundle and resource keys of untranslated resources grouped by corresponding resource files; and

d. computer readable program code for maintaining said resource files by either;

i. updating any changes made throughout each resource file in said resource bundle;

or

ii. updating any changes made to only a specific resource file in said resource bundle.