<s>
A	O
resource	O
bundle	O
is	O
a	O
Java	B-Language
.properties	B-Protocol
file	O
that	O
contains	O
locale-specific	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
a	O
way	O
of	O
internationalising	O
a	O
Java	B-Language
application	O
by	O
making	O
the	O
code	O
locale-independent	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Extracting	O
locale-sensitive	O
objects	O
such	O
as	O
strings	O
from	O
the	O
code	O
(	O
as	O
opposed	O
to	O
hard-coding	O
them	O
)	O
means	O
that	O
the	O
application	O
can	O
handle	O
multiple	O
locales	B-Device
without	O
having	O
to	O
write	O
different	O
code	O
for	O
each	O
locale	B-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
Therefore	O
,	O
using	O
resource	O
bundles	O
improves	O
the	O
internationalisation	O
and	O
the	O
localisation	B-General_Concept
process	O
of	O
a	O
software	O
product	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
CAT	B-Application
tools	I-Application
like	O
OmegaT	B-Language
,	O
OmegaT+	O
,	O
Swordfish	B-General_Concept
or	O
Sun	O
's	O
Open	B-Language
language	I-Language
tools	I-Language
can	O
specifically	O
handle	O
resource	O
bundles	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
to	O
these	O
,	O
translators	O
can	O
use	O
any	O
text	B-Application
editor	I-Application
to	O
create	O
new	O
resource	O
bundles	O
or	O
to	O
modify	O
existing	O
ones	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Message	O
Compiler	O
creates	O
also	O
constant	O
definitions	O
for	O
the	O
keys	O
used	O
to	O
access	O
the	O
localized	O
texts	O
with	O
the	O
methods	O
of	O
the	O
Java	B-Language
class	O
,	O
and	O
HTML	B-Language
documentation	O
pages	O
for	O
each	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
