Chapter 28. Internationalization and Accessibility
Like any commercial-quality product, Eclipse is fully internationalizable and pays attention to accessibility requirements. When contributing to Eclipse we want to preserve this characteristic and make sure that our plug-in is usable by anybody. In this section we look into tasks related to internationalization and accessibility:
Externalizing the strings from the plugin.xml
Externalizing strings from Java code
Paying attention to accessibility
All these tasks are highly mechanical, but need to be done. Let's start with externalizing the strings from the plugin.xml.
Externalizing Strings from the Manifest Files
Some strings in the plugin.xml are shown to the end user, the label of an action, for example. ...
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