Template Files

The /var/opt/SUNWportal/portals/portal-ID/desktop/desktoptype directory contains templates that are used to generate the Desktop pages. For each directory contained in this directory, a new directory for the locale must be created. The directory name must contain the existing directory with an underscore and the name of the locale; for example, /var/opt/SUNWportal/portals/portal-ID/desktop/default is translated to /var/opt/SUNWportal/portals/portal-ID/desktop/default_locale.

All of the file names can remain the same. Only files that require translation must be created in the locale-specific directory. If a file is not found in the locale-specific directory, it is automatically taken from the directory that does not have the locale specifier.

Template files are mostly markup text with embedded tags that specify substitutions to be performed at runtime. The tags have the form [...]. The tags should not be modified during the translation process.

Each template file is encoded using Java Unicode encoding where non-ASCII characters are represented with \\uXXXX notation. Here the \\uXXXX is the hexidecimal representation of the Unicode value for the character. This type of file can be created from a native file using the Java native2ascii program available in the JDK 1.3.1 package that is shipped with the Portal Server software.