Localization in RCP plugins

Localization in RCP plugins is usually done by including translations in a property file and using their id in plugin.xml.

I spend some time lately trying to understand why some translations were not used in my application although they were correctly displayed in PDE.

Answer : when using plugin.properties, you MUST include the following line in the plugin manifest :

Bundle-Localization: plugin

Otherwise, PDE will show the translated text, but your app won’t.

Strangely, I had to edit the manifest manually because I couldn’t find a way to enable plugin localization in PDE. Some other plugins of my application already had this line, but I don’t remember adding it. Maybe Eclipse templates have changed since I created my first plugins (using Eclipse 3.1).

See this post on the rcp newsgroup


Posted in Computer, Eclipse, OSGI, RCP - August 3rd, 2007.





View Comments to “Localization in RCP plugins”

  1. Chris Aniszczyk Says:
    5 de August, 2007 at 8:08 pm

    Please file an enhancement request against PDE. I think PDE can be smart here and see that you are referencing externalized strings, however, don’t have the Bundle-Localization header set.

    We rely on the community for great enhancement requests ;)

  2. Chris Aniszczyk Says:
    6 de August, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    I didn’t see you file a bug yet :P

    The PDE team loves you :)

  3. Nicolas Richeton Says:
    12 de August, 2007 at 3:24 pm

    Hi Chris,

    I’m just back from holidays :-) I’ll file the bug request soon…

  4. Nicolas Richeton Says:
    13 de August, 2007 at 10:54 am

    See this bug posted by Alex Blewitt :
    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=198866

  5. Nikolay Says:
    26 de May, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    Thanks :) You saved me some hours ;P

  6. Nikolay Says:
    11 de January, 2010 at 5:31 pm

    Thanks :) You saved me some hours ;P

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