Using / Creating Locale for your language

How to do :

1 ) To create resource bundles for different languages and then use the ResourceManager class provided by the Flex API to get the resources.
Just changing the locale of the resource manager will reflect changes in the entire application with the values from the new locale’s resource bundle.

How to Create Locale :

For example if I want to support two locales (en_US and fr_FR) in your application and I my parent folder is named as “Locales”, then I might have following folders. As en_US ,fr_FR

It will be like this :
Locales/en_US , Locales/fr_FR

Steps to do before make the Bundle

Part 1 : SDK

Create folder
1 D:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\bundles \fr_FR
2 D:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\bundles\fr_FR \src

Download and paste
3.http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/bundles/fr_FR inside step 2

Create folder :
4 D:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.2.0\frameworks\locale \fr_FR

Execute
5. D:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.2.0

bin\compc -locale=fr_FR -source-path+=frameworks/projects/framework/bundles/fr_FR/src -include-resource-bundles=collections,containers,controls,core,effects,formatters,logging,SharedResources,skins,states,styles,utils,validators -output=frameworks/locale/fr_FR/framework_rb.swc

Part 2 : Project

1. Set System PATH
D:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.2.0\bin
2. create required properties file mainBundle.properties
3. keep that file inside a folder with your locale name ‘fr_FR
4.execute from root path
mxmlc -locale=fr_FR -source-path={locale} -include-resource-bundles=mainBundle,collections,containers,controls,core,effects,skins,styles -output=src/Resources_fr_FR.swf

mxmlc -locale=en_US -source-path={locale} -include-resource-bundles=mainBundle,collections,containers,controls,core,effects,skins,styles -output=src/Resources_en_US.swf

After that place that swf file your Project

Locale/en_US :
Inside we need create the file name like “mainBundle.properties” inside that we need to create like that

welcome_title_text=Welcome,
form_first_name_text=First Name
form_second_name_text=Last Name
form_gender_text=Gender
form_gender_list_male_text=Male
form_gender_list_female_text=Female

Locale/fr_FR :
Inside we need create the file name like “mainBundle.properties” inside that we need to create like that

welcome_title_text=Bienvenue ,
form_first_name_text=Prénom
form_second_name_text=Nom de famille
form_gender_text=Sexe
form_gender_list_male_text=Mâle
form_gender_list_female_text=Femelle

Adding Locales to your Projects
Add the locale to the compiler options.
-locale=en_US,fr_FR

This link, claims to have compiled swc files for most languages : Babel

Flex with Java Collaborative using the Best Architectures of Both

This Post was my overdue subject, I wanted to help with a sample Application using Cairngorm, Spring BlazeDS Integration & Generic DAO.

This might be a heavy subject as it deals with many subjects:

• Cairngorm with UM Extensions , from Universal Mind
• Spring BlazeDS Integration, from Spring Source
• Spring, from Spring Source
• Hibernate
• Generic DAO, from IBM.
• Spring Security 2.0, using MySQL.

The Source is available at the link: cairnspring

How to use the source effectively?
it is simple, steps below:

1. Download, Source and Libs
2. Unzip both and import “CairnSpring”, to your Eclipse
3. Paste the lib files to “CairnSpring\WebContent\WEB-INF\lib” folder
4. Import the “db.sql” into your MySQL Db, (change mysql port to 3036, else can be configured to default in “CairnSpring\WebContent\WEB-INF\config\jdbc.properties” file)
5. In Eclipse, Window -> Preferences -> Web and XML -> XML Catalog -> Add User Specified Entries with below values
   Location : CairnSpring/WebContent/WEB-INF/config/spring-flex-1.0.xsd
   KeyType : Namespace Name
   Key : http://www.springframework.org/schema/flex/spring-flex-1.0.xsd
6. Start the Tomcat Server with CairnSpring instance (the server host and port can be configured in file “CairnSpring\flex_src\Server.properties”)