Beyond the Chrome: Designing Multi-cultural Business
Processes
Intended Audience: |
Managers, Software Engineers |
Session Level: |
Intermediate, Advanced |
This presentation will examine the issues involved in designing
data structures and business logic in a distributed multi-lingual
environment. It is intended for developers who are familiar with
basic internationalization concepts who wish to explore more
complex multilingual server problems, especially in the design of
Web services. Modern enterprise software environments promise the ability to
model business processes, deploy these processes as Web
applications or Web services, and then manage/analyze the resulting
business activity in real time. Providing these capabilities in a
multi-lingual or multi-culturally capable way requires approaches
and designs that move beyond mere surface localization. This
represents a challenge for developers because it requires a very
different level of internationalization sophistication than many
have previously encountered. In this presentation we will look at some guidelines for
designing global data structures and processes. We'll identify how
language, cultural preferences, and "locales" can (and can't) be
harnessed to make a "global-ready" business process. Attendees are expected to know about internationalization
practices in general and at least be familiar with the concepts of
distributed computing. |