How do I externalize strings in my Eclipse plugin's plugin.xml?
Right-clicking on the plugin project > PDE Tools > Externalize Strings does not show up my plugin.
I'm trying to do this manually now. I added entries in plugin.properties and replaced the equivalent string in plugin.xml with a % sign followed by the string key. But that does not seem to work. What am I missing here?
I finally figured out how to manually externalize the plugin.
Eclipse, it turns out, externalizes plugin.xml this way:
In the plugin manifest (META-INF/MANIFEST.MF), add the following line
Bundle-Localization: plugin
where you intend to store the externalized strings in a file called "plugin.properties" (Turns out this was the missing piece).
Add the externalized string key-value pairs in plugin.properties.
Replace the actual strings in plugin.xml with the keys from plugin.properties (prefixed with %).