Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jim Eng <jimeng AT umich.edu>]

We are adding dialogs for assigning licenses in a java project.  We  
are interested in using standard strings for the license names,  
jurisdictions, etc, based on the user's locale/language preferences  
(which are set elsewhere in our UI and honored throughout our app).  I  
could use immediate advice on two major questions:

1) What's the best source of the CC strings and translations?  We see  
the strings we want in CC's subversion and git repositories.  For  
example:

        http://code.creativecommons.org/viewgit?p=license.rdf.git;a=tree
        http://code.creativecommons.org/viewsvn/license.rdf/

But we'd really like to use a "released" version packaged as a jar or  
zip archive with version number and such so we can easily track  
changes and make sure we are getting a stable version for our  
releases.  Ideally, we would let maven get the specified version from  
from http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2/ or some mirror.   
So the question is whether there are versioned releases of these  
files, and whether there is a best way to get them?

2) Most of the strings in our UI come from java properties files.  We  
have a utility that selects the right language bundle for the context  
based on the user's locale/language preference.  I am seeing the CC  
strings in RDF and XML files. We could transform those files to the  
format used by our utility, but if there's already some standard java  
utility that does the same thing using CC's files directly, we'd like  
to consider using that.  Otherwise, we will need to track changes to  
the CC strings and run periodic conversions.  That seems more prone to  
errors.  So my question is whether anyone can recommend best practices  
for this or point out a standard utility for this purpose?

Thanks.

Jim Eng
University of Michigan
Sakai Project
jimeng at umich dot edu