When you are looking at a documentation page you will see two drop-down lists near the top-right corner of the page. The first selects the language that you want to see the documentation in. The second indicates the activity that you are engaged in. There are four activities:

Read	Reading the documentation. The "details" buttons expand the documentation in each section. There is a 'Show all' button near the top of the page that expands (or contracts) all of the details sections. If you are reading in a language other than English, a small button will appear to the right of each text fragment. The button will be colored green if a translation of the text exists in the database. It will be red if the text has not yet been translated. If you press one of these buttons, you will be shown a page containing all of the translations of this text fragment. Here you can vote for your favorite.
Print	Presents the documentation in a plain form without any buttons - suitable for printing.
Vote	Similar to 'Read', except that each text fragment is also followed by a pair of thumbs up and thumbs down buttons. Click thumbs up if you like the translation, down if you don't. When there are multiple translations of a piece of text, the one that is normally presented is the one with the most favorable votes.
Translate	Use this if you want to help translate the documentation: Each text fragment will be followed by textarea into which you can type your translation of that fragment. You don't have to do them all. Just do the ones that you have time for. When you're done, click the "Submit Translations" button.

In order to translate or vote, you have to be logged in. The login page will also allow you to register if you have not already done so. Right now the registration system on this site is seperate from the rest of the Sun Developer Network: this is a bug, single-sign-on will be implemented soon.

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Some of the translations done during this phase have been produced using Google's language tools. They do a notoriously mediocre job. I apologize in advance.