As described in

Appendix A: Application Components

later in this document, four sets of resource bundles contain the strings that are displayed in an IDD application. Each set includes the default file, a placeholder English language file (this file can be empty), and optional localized versions of the file.

For example, for the

MessageBundle

set, the default file is

MessageBundle.properties

and the placeholder English language file is

MessageBundle_en.properties

.

Localized file should have language code suffix and optional country code suffix. The values for these suffixes are two-letter ISO codes. For more information, see

Appendix B: Locale Codes

later in this document.

Each resource bundle file is a UTF-8 encoded properties file. Each entry in the file is a name/value pair in format

<name>=<value>

.

<name>

This is a fixed value that is referenced by the IDD application. It cannot be changed.

<value>

This is the part that can be localized.

A few examples:

title=Informatica Data Director 
locale=Locale 
search=Search

Message bundle files can be added to the application either by including them in the application ZIP file that is imported, or by importing them into an existing application.

When an IDD application is first created, the IDD Configuration Manager generates default resource bundles of each type. These resource bundles have entries for all of the labels used in the IDD application.

To modify or localize these labels:

See

Appendix A: Application Components

later in this document for details on each resource bundle set.