feedJDK 6.0 Internationalization Features
A new article about features under development for JDK 6.0 has a section on internationalization features. The big theme is opening up the architecture of the internationalization frameworks – enabling different implementations of resource bundles as well as the provision of locale data for locales that Sun doesn’t know enough about. The long awaited normalization API and a Japanese calendar round out the feature set.
Developers working on the server side should read this section of the article despite the article’s title – all listed internationalization features are part of core Java and useful on both desktop and server. The Java Internationalization team just happens to be part of the Java Client Group at Sun, and so we got invited to participate. Developers working on desktop applications of course will want to read the entire article.