Translating JAMS

Revision as of 19:16, 22 October 2009

You can translate the JAMS graphical user interfaces by editing language files. Those files contain lines of the format <key>=<value>, where key is some string identifier and value a term in a certain language. An example would be "ExplorerDisabled=JAMS Explorer is diabled in this version!". The interfaces are translated by replacing the right part with the translated terms. In order to preserve a proper generation of combined terms, leading and trailing whitespace characters must be kept.

First of all, make sure you have the JDK java development package installed. The files that I am referring to are part of the new JAMS version which has a new package structure. Please install the current version of JAMS that is available at http://jams.uni-jena.de. Afterwards, you can edit the language files by following the these steps:

1. open a DOS command prompt
2. change into the directory containing the JAMS *.jar files (e.g. "cd c:\program files\jams\lib")
3. extract the JAMS language file by running

jar -xf jams-main.jar resources/JAMSBundle_pt.properties

1. edit the file resources\JAMSBundle_pt.properties as you like
2. write the modified file back to the archive by running

jar -uf jams-main.jar resources/JAMSBundle_pt.properties

1. delete the extracted files by running

rmdir /s/q resources

1. extract the JUICE language file by running the command

jar -xf jams-ui.jar resources/JUICEBundle_pt.properties

1. edit the file resources\JUICEBundle_pt.properties as you like
2. write the modified file back to the archive by running

jar -uf jams-ui.jar resources/JUICEBundle_pt.properties

1. delete the extracted files by running

rmdir /s/q resources