com.lf.commons.i18n.spi

Interface Localization

All Known Implementing Classes:

Localization_eng_US, Localization_ger_DE

public interface Localization

Used for finding localization resources from separate JAR files.

The help systems are packaged as separate JAR files for Leisenfels applications. There must be at least one Java class file be included in each of the JAR files in order to be able to detect all the resources of the archive. This is the job of this locator class.

Imagine the localizations of an application are located in separate JARs. Since Java loads the classes as needed there is no trivial way to detect available localization indicator classes like Localization across multiple JAR archives. Even the use of VFS listing does not work since you need a special class loader per JAR file. Getting the available localizations for example would mean to permutate all combinations of locales which cannot be done in practice.

The way out is the service provider API allowing any localization JAR file to declare the contained implementations of the Localization interface (providing the locale). The service providers are well-known before any classes are loaded from the JARs. A listing functionality simply has to read the providers for the service (here localization).

Since:

1.5

Version:

$Revision: 1.10 $, $Date: 2016/01/01 15:43:03 $

Author:

Axel Schwolow

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Locale	getLocale() Provides the locale supported by this localization service.

Method Detail

getLocale

Locale getLocale()

Provides the locale supported by this localization service.

Returns:

Supported locale

Since:

1.5