External application tasks are defined in IBM® Director using
a combination of Java™ resources including command-task
files and Java resource bundles.
Command-task files
Command-task
files are Java property files
that are used by the
IBM Director command-task service
to configure tasks to run in the
IBM Director environment.
New
command-task files can be constructed and existing command-task files can be
modified using the External
Application Launch Wizard.
Java resource bundles
Command-task files can
reference Java resource bundles to define national-language titles
for use with the external application task.
Use the External
Application Launch Wizard to define resource bundles and properties to define task title strings
for languages supported in addition to English.External
Application Launch resource bundles can be user-defined, or they can be created
or modified using the
External
Application Launch Wizard.
Note: Although IBM Director ensures
that IBM Director data is valid,
you are responsible for ensuring that data in the resource bundles is valid
for the intended purpose.
Task icons
Command-task files can reference Graphics
Interchange Format (GIF) files that are used as task icons. These files can
be existing IBM Director task
icon files specified with a path name relative to the classes directory under
the IBM Director installation,
or they can be any nonanimated GIF files specified with
a fully qualified path and file name. Task icon files can be specified for
small (16-pixel) and large (32-pixel) icons.