About Globalyzer
Lingoport’s Globalyzer was designed to bring internationalization to the forefront and facilitate making software world-ready a priority. See for yourself how Globalyzer generates an assessment of internationalization readiness and applications for real-time i18n detection, validation and resolution by requesting a free trial of Globalyzer.
Contents
Getting Started Videos
The following videos introduce Globalyzer: Globalyzer Quick Tutorial organizes the videos below in one logical sequence.
Creating a Project in Globalyzer
Scanning Code and Refining Rules
Language Support
Globalyzer allows users to scan a number of source code in different programming languages:
- ActionScript,
- C#,
- C/C++ (many variations),
- Delphi,
- HTML (in various web files),
- Java,
- JavaScript,
- Objective-C,
- MXML,
- Perl,
- PHP,
- Qt,
- SQL (Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL),
- Visual Basic (Classic, .NET),
- VBScript, and
- XML
Globalyzer detects internationalization issues and assists you in fixing those issues.
Globalyzer is flexible in its programming language support and can be adapted to support any language not listed.
Globalyzer Components
Globalyzer consists of three main components: the Globalyzer Server, the Globalyzer Workbench, and the Globalyzer Command Line.
Globalyzer Server - allows development teams around the world to share and collaborate together using high powered internationalization rule sets during scanning of code.
Globalyzer Workbench - provides a fully functional code analysis and editing environment for finding, fixing, testing and reporting on internationalization issues in a wide variety of programming languages. You can run Globalyzer as a stand-alone desktop editor or as an Eclipse Plugin.
Globalyzer Command Line - create automated Globalyzer scans as part of your continuous build integration so that you can report and track internationalization issues over time.
FAQ
Further information: Globalyzer FAQ
Licensing
Globalyzer can be licensed in a hosted account configuration, where Lingoport hosts the Globalyzer server, or as a Team server, hosted within your company’s network. Globalyzer is licensed based on organizational use as internationalization is a team development activity and ongoing process. Please contact sales@lingoport.com for more information.
You can also try Globalyzer with a Demo Account. Demo Accounts have two limitations: 1) Globalyzer limits the number of internationalization issues it will report on to approximately 100. 2) You will not be able to see or modify Locale-Sensitive Methods for your Globalyzer Rule Sets.
Globalyzer 4.0
Globalyzer 4.0 takes advantage of the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment. The Globalyzer 4.0 Workbench can be installed as a stand-alone application or as an Eclipse 3.7 plugin. This new architecture means you’ll be able to check out source, scan and fix internationalization issues with Globalyzer, build and run with your modifications, and check in your changes, all within your development environment!
Here are only some of the new capabilities you'll have with Globalyzer 4.0:
- Interact with source code repositories from the Workbench: CVS is included with the Globalyzer Workbench; plug-in for other source control systems can be easily added.
- Manage multiple Globalyzer Projects from within the Workbench: Just click on each Globalyzer Project in the Explorer Window to switch projects.
- More powerful searching: Search results are now in their own window for easy management.
- New Resource File Editor: Create and edit your locale-specific resource files and check for duplicate, missing and unused resource keys.
- Improved Globalyzer Help: To ensure that you have full use of Globalyzer, we've added several kinds of help - Context sensitive, Cheat Sheets, as well as an extensive online Help System - all within the Workbench.
- More powerful Project Explorer window: With Eclipse's underlying support, Globalyzer's features can be applied at subdirectory and file levels, giving you much more flexibility in how you do your internationalization work.
- Enhanced editing: Enjoy the full editing capabilities of an IDE from within Globalyzer.
- Plug-in extensibility: Add additional functionality to your internationalization and application development environment using Eclipse's plug-in support.
Be sure to check the help and run a tutorial to get a better idea of Globalyzer 4.0's enhanced usability.
