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We have choosed to use the Packaging Utility, because we don't have any access to the clients of our developers. Nearly all of them are external suppliers.
Normally neither we nor the users themself are authorisized to change the registry manually or via scripting. Parameters the users may change are sometimes reset to the company defaults by administration.
Our chalange is to provide a global solution fitting to all of our suppliers. That's why the two PMRs are in development.
An alternate method of globally setting the runtime language for all Eclipse-based products would be to define the following environment variable on the client workstations:
JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Dosgi.nl=en_DE
The osgi.nl system property is functionally equivalent to the -nl command line/eclipse.ini option, and determines the displayed language for Eclipse applications. The JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS environment variable offers a way to globally set the option for all Eclipse applications, rather than a piecemeal approach for each individual Eclipse application, so this approach may satisfy both this RFE and the two PMRs on the same subject.
Would it be possible for your workstation deployment mechanism to set the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS environment variable on each of your client workstations? This would only need to be done once per workstation. A Windows registry editor script could be used to programmatically create environment variables under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment registry key.