Flex 4: I18N (Internationalization)

To ensure that your applications are usable by the widest range of users, Flex 4 provides many accessibility, internationalization, and printing options.

For example, if your project must comply with accessibility standards, you’ll find screen-reader detection and keyboard tab orders to help visually impaired users, or users for whom the use of a pointing device is difficult or impossible.

Flex’s tool-set for internationalization and localization was much improved in Version 4. The localization features include a built-in internationalization resource manager, runtime locale determination, runtime locale switching, and resource modules that can be requested at runtime.

If your challenge is closer to home---say, if you need printed deliverables — the latest version of Flex has that covered too.

Flex 4 enables you to print Flex components and includes a DataGrid component specifically for printing repetitive, multipage output.

ADF: Faces BIDI EL

At some point, you may have an inlineStyle whose value is BIDI sensitive; in LTR (left-to-right) mode, you may want a “left” style but in RTL (right-to-left) mode, you may want a “right” style.  You don’t have to write a managed bean to give you the corresponding style, you can use EL (expression language).

Here’s an example assigning a padding for the “start” side of 10px:

inlineStyle="padding-#{adfFacesContext.rightToLeft?'right':'left'}:10px;"

See oracle.adf.view.rich.context.AdfFacesContext for other properties.