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Figure 5-32.
Translation information dashboard
Conclusion
In today's business market, globalization is an important aspect in application development.
Companies often have offices all over the world and customers can be located anywhere. Unfortunately,
Globalization is often a feature overlooked by many, but it is definetly worth looking at and may end up
to be very useful. The internet allows us to create applications that can be used by multiple users in
multiple locations at the same time. Oracle Application Express possesses all the required tools to
support you in building globalized applications to help you better serve your customers.
As seen in this chapter, translation is relatively easy once you understand that an application must
be seeded, translated and published. Having all the information stored in a meta data makes it even
easier. Another important aspect is that the translation process can be extended to third parties, due to
its use of the standard XLIFF format, also used by translators.
Localization is the other aspect of globalization taken care of in APEX. Date formats, number
formats, Time Zones, Territories and other NLS settings are easily customizable. There are even
automatic settings available to developers for building fully localized applications. And even for US
English-only applications some of the globalization attributes can be useful.
All in all , APEX has been handling globalization from its first version and this feature is very well
integrated. And I am sure that it will continue to improve in its next releases.
