[Bodington-developers] Consistent & unified use of 'institutional.system.name' property.

[Alexis O'C. <ale...@co...>]

I've just checked in to bodington HEAD updates and modifications to 
templates and their corresponding resource files, which should leverage 
a single property to describe the institutional system name, e.g. 
Bodington, CLAN, WebLearn. This property is called 
'institutional.system.name' and is specified in 
res/generic/template_sites_*.properties. Where appropriate, I also 
inserted line-breaks into multi-line statements (via use of the magic 
'\' character) and gave property names more meaningful values. It's 
probably good if you can get the gist of what a template does without 
needing the corresponding resource file.


Obviously this can wait for another day ( ;-) ), but the use of a 
'institutional.system.name' property really requires "compound 
messages". Different languages may require this name to be at either the 
front, or at the back. The value within the resource file needs to be 
itself referring to another parameterized property (the system name).

The following links describe this better than I can at present!:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/format/messageFormat.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/5.0/docs/api/java/text/MessageFormat.html

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