Name: bb33257 Date: 10/26/99


The Locale architecture for accessing international objects such as
DateFormats does not allow for extension, customization, or
synchronization with the user's host customizations. Currently,
there is no way to customize a given locale, which is functionality
available on competitive platforms such as Windows. In Windows, for
example, a client can define a new number format and that format is
picked up by applications automatically. In Java however, the new
format can't be associated with a Locale and code that is not
created by the client (such as system code) will not pick up that
new number format. Moreover, if the user is using a customized
Locale in the host, that is not reflected in Java. Java needs to
support this functionality. A non-persistent version of this
functionality could be implemented with a simple
setInstance(selector, locale, value) API on system classes that
use resources.
(Review ID: 97061)

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