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Abstract
The Internet transcends national boundaries and geographical barriers. Many e-business entities have sought help from IBM in extending their e-business worldwide. IBM’s own marketing messages have stressed the global aspect of e-business, and our customers therefore expect IBM to be able to provide the solutions. Take a simple e-commerce application, for example. A company wants to set up a Web site to sell to customers from all over the world. Studies also have shown that users are much more likely to purchase from a Web site in their own language.
With the worldwide growth of e-business, globalization is not only an add-on value but a must for global e-business applications. In fact, globalization has become an architecture in the realm of e-business.
The key to globalization architecture is the Single Executable, which is the proper design and execution of systems, software, services, and procedures so that one instance of software, executing on a single server or end-user machine, can process multilingual data and present culturally correct information (for example, collation, date, and number formats).
This IBM Redbook presents a globalization architecture, a working example, and an accompanying set of methodologies. It explains from the customer’s point of view how to plan and then design a multilingual solution with the IBM-recommended globalization application architecture, how it works throughout the application development cycle, and how the working example validates the soundness of this architecture.
Table of contents
Preface
Part 1. Introduction
Chapter 1. What is globalization?
Chapter 2. Why is globalization necessary?
Chapter 3. How to implement globalization
Part 2. Globalization application design
Chapter 4. Single Executable
Chapter 5. Unicode support
Chapter 6. Locale model
Chapter 7. Localization pack
Chapter 8. Input and output of multilingual data
Chapter 9. Linguistic services
Chapter 10. Global Business Object
Chapter 11. Localization
Part 3. Our Global Travel Shanghai Demo: A working example
Chapter 12. Overview
Chapter 13. Environment
Chapter 14. A development methodology for globalized applications
Chapter 15. Design and development
Chapter 16. Testing
Chapter 17. Maintenance
Appendix A. Server-side installation and configuration for Our Global Travel Shanghai Demo
Appendix B. Client-side installation and configuration for Our Global Travel Shanghai Demo
Appendix C. CSS and artwork globalization