Switch Oracle BPM (ALBPM) Studio Language

AquaLogic (Fuego) BPM is now part of Oracle BPM Suite and renamed to Oracle BPM.

Back in the 5.x era, the studio IDE is a Swing based app. As far as I know, from 5.7 BEA started to implement i18n for Studio. However, only several languages are available. It can be switched via menu.

From 6.0 whose code name is puma, a new Studio IDE is built on top of Eclipse IDE. In theory it is should support multiligual. However there is not apparent options in the UI to switch language.

A coworker of mine in China asked my that why his ALBPM 6.0 Studio was in Chinese Simplified. And he was not able to change it. After looking at the locale setting which was zh_CN. And he was not willing to change the system locale. So I told him to try switching using eclipse way:) It did work. I then digged further into the installation folder and found it is multilingual in fact.

Tip applicable for version:
ALBPM Studio 6.0.x
Oracle BPM Studio 10gR3 (10.3) which is ALBPM 6.5

How to use:
Windows OS
Edit the Studio shortcut and add the -nl option. It should look like this:
C:\Oracle\OracleBPMStudio\eclipse\eclipse.exe -nl de

*NIX
Assume that we install Studio in /opt folder.
/opt/OracleBPMStudio/eclipse/./eclipse -nl de
Note: In the 10gR3 Studio installatio folder, there is even no icon for the app but a Eclipse icon...

Check the installation folder and you will find the available languages:
C:\OracleBPMStudio\studio\eclipse\plugins
/opt/OracleBPMStudio/studio/eclipse/plugins

en
es
ja
ko
zh
zh_TW
de
fr
it
nl
pt

For more info on Eclipse:
http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/running_eclipse.htm