Masaki Katakai's Weblog: NetBeans Globalization

If you want to build localized jar files of NetBeans Platform on your local environment, please try the following step. You can use these jar files with your NetBeans Platform based applications. To build localized jar files, you need to build NetBeans 6.1 first, then build localized jar files. The detail instruction of l10n-kit and localizing NetBeans is described in

• http://wiki.netbeans.org/NB61L10nPlatform
• NetBeans 6.1 : How to localize NB Platform

General information about NetBeans sources and build instruction is described in

• http://wiki.netbeans.org/WorkingWithNetBeansSources

1. Get NetBeans sources.

% hg clone http://hg.netbeans.org/release61
destination directory: release61
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 77536 changesets with 361898 changes to 79879 files
77396 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
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2. Edit release61/nbbuild/user.build.properties. If necessary, please define cluster in nb.clusters.list.

build.compiler=extJavac
javac.compilerargs=-J-Xmx512m
nb.clusters.list=nb.cluster.nb,nb.cluster.platform,nb.cluster.ide,nb.cluster.java

3. Set ant option then run ant

% export ANT_OPTS="-Xmx196m"
% cd release61
% ant

4. Run build-nbms. To run the target of building localized jar file, it seems that we need to build nbms files. Run build-nbms target too.

% ant build-nbms

5. Get localized files under release61/.

% hg clone http://hg.netbeans.org/release61/l10n
destination directory: l10n
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 177 changesets with 27064 changes to 21005 files
20706 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
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When you want to localize files, pick up l10n-kit of NetBeans Platform. Once you localize them, put your files into src/<lang> directory. For example, if you localize Spanish files, put your files into src/es.

6. Run ant under l10n/.

% cd l10n
% ant

Localized jar files will be created under dist/ directory. ja, zh_CN and pt_BR files are created by default. If you want only specific language, please use locales property like below.

% ant -Dlocales=ja

7. Copy localized jar files into your NetBeans 6.1 installation directory.
8. Run NetBeans in proper locale environment. Or use --locale option to specify the language option.

% netbeans --locale zh:TW