[dsdp-tm-dev] ICU4J and Target Management

["Oberhuber, Martin" <Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

we've had some thoughts about ICU4J in the committer
meeting recently.

You may want to know that I just checked in the first
usage of ICU4J in RSE: it's now used in the 
    org.eclipse.rse.ui plugin, 
    SystemWidgetHelpers.sortSystemTypesByLabel() method,
in order to sort translated system type labels 
correctly according to international unicode rules.
I had to change META-INF/MANIFEST.MF in order to
import-package com.ibm.icu.text to do this.

We'll need to make more use of ICU4J going forward,
in order to correctly sort, show date formats, do
message replacing and handle BIDI locales. A good
starting point for understanding how to migrate
current code for ICU4J is in
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/ICU4J

The rule of thumb, however, should be to try and
use ICU4J only in the UI code, for user-visible
translated labels and stuff. We should try and
keep our core model free of translations where
possible.

Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm