INTROSPECTIVE EDITOR SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND METHOD FOR SOFTWARE TRANSLATION USING A FACADE CLASS

A system, method, and program for providing language translators with contextual information for the text to be translated. The translator is presented with a graphical user interface in the base language, and can then interactively translate each text label on the screen. Because the translation is performed on the text in the proper context, the time and expense of Translation Verification Testing is reduced or eliminated. The contextual presentation of the text is accomplished by creating a “facade” class which includes Java JComponents and adds additional attributes to each member component. The additional attributes include the Java resource bundle name and key for each JComponent.