Why Eclipse RCP?

• Plug-in mechanism
• Preferences system
• Help system
• Proven & actively developed platform
• Good IDE support & Visual editors
• Automatic updates mechanisms
• JFace wizards, dialogs, forms UI
• Existing reusable plugins (editors, views)
• Cross platform

Pointers

• http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Rich_Client_Platform

Alternatives

• Netbeans Platform
• Other?

Eclipse Localisation Platform

Data Models

• Localisation Project Model
  • Based on PackageFormat
• Filter model
• Translation resource model
  • Translation Memory
  • Terminology Databases and Dictionaries
  • Machine Translation

Features / Plugins

• Translation Editor
• Project Management
• Translation Memory Management
• Internal Translation Memory Engine
• Internal Terminology Database
• Filters

Views

• Project Tree / Navigator View
• Translation Reuse View
  • Suggested matches from TM/MT
• Terminology View
  • Suggested Terminology from Termbases/Dictionaries

Editors

• Extensible Translation Editor
  • Default Table based Editor
  • Extensions to support e.g. Visual Editing
• TM editor
• Project Editor
  • Add resources
  • Manage extensions

Extension Points

• Filters
  • Wizard based converter
  • Based on configuration files not linked to RCP, can be reused on server or stored in PackageFormat.
  • File -> Import/Export ... allows e.g. direct translation of a document and regenerating the translated document.
• Translation Editors
  • Adds a tab to switch between editors
  • Allow user/application preferences for which editor to use for which content type
• PackageFormat plug-ins
  • Customized / value-added functionality
  • Adding labels to projects
  • allow online-translation of content via a repository
• Validators
  • Content-based validators
  • Linked to PackageFormat
• Translation Resources such as remote TM engines and repositories

Perspectives

• Translation Perspective
• Project Management Perspective
• Translation Memory Management Perspective

Products

• We could possibly split these into two separate applications, one for Translators, one for Localisation Engineers/Managers.
• Allow vendors to build products on top of "ELP"?
• E.g. for a Linux distro, it would be great to ship a platform where the product is customized with the required plug-ins to
  • register as a translator
  • tools to list what needs translation
  • collaboration tools (embedded chat, irc)
• Encourage extensibility