Chapter 18. Globalization and Localization With APEX Applications

APEX, with its IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and its generated product, the developed APEX applications, was designed to support Globalization and Localization.

APEX supports Globalization by including several built-in mechanisms and wizards that allow us to implement the Localization we need, separately from the application logic. One of these mechanisms is the APEX built-in text translation mechanism, which uses the XLIFF (XML Localization Interchange File Format) standard.

In this chapter, we'll try to understand what Globalization and Localization support means and how APEX achieves it. We'll review the following APEX features and capabilities:

• Native IDE support of multiple languages: The APEX IDE can be run under 10 different User Interface languages English and nine more.

• Multi language support: APEX applications currently support 132 languages, dialects, and territories (locales) as the APEX application...