Symbolic strings are important object definitions. They are referenced by almost any object that holds translatable display values such as applet controls or error messages.

In this chapter, we learned how symbolic strings work and how they can be created. Developers can create symbolic strings manually or by collecting overridden strings using the string conversion and string consolidation batch utilities.

The chapter also showed how to create custom message templates and gave an overview on how to use the Locale Management Utility (LMU) to export strings for translation and import the translated files.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to create and modify applets.