Code Monkeyism

Programming is hard by Stephan Schmidt

June 27, 2006

cintoo Messages 1.0 released

Due to the help by Alex with TestNG I finalized the Messages 1.0 release.

Messages is a free framework to make internationalization easier for Java
applications. It adds several features compared to default Java internation-
alization and support locales for threads and different bundles for different
packages. This allows the usage of different bundles for different parts of
the application like plugins, the installer or logging.

Key features:
- a lot less code than standard internationalization in Java
- easier to use for developers
- supports bundle refactorings
- bundles associated with Java packages
- hierarchies of bundles,
e.g. one bundle for com.corp and one for com.corp.accounting
- Low intrusive code, e.g. $(this, “FILE_NOT_FOUND”, fileName)
- Locales per thread or global
- Apache license

http://cintoo.org

Downloads http://cintoo.org/dist/messages/
Documentation http://docs.cintoo.org/messages/

About the author: Stephan Schmidt is currently a team manager at ImmobilienScout24 in Berlin. Stephan has been working as a head of development and CTO. He has used a lot of different technologies in the last 20 years including Java, Rails and Python. Stephans main field of interest is maintainablity and productivity in software development. Want to know more? All views are only his own.

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Comments

Jason

Congratulations on the 1.0 release Stephan! I must say I am impressed with the documentation, light-years ahead of the average open source library.

June 28th, 2006
stephan

Thanks.

I must admit I released open source projects in the past with sub optimal documentation. But as documentation is key, I’ll try to improve it from project to project.

And thanks again for pulse, migrating to TestNG was a breeze.

June 28th, 2006

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