1. A method for creating language-neutral and corresponding language-specific resource files for a component, the method comprising: obtaining a resource manifest file; retrieving a resource file by accessing the resource manifest file; creating a language-neutral file and a language-specific resource file for the retrieved resource file, the language-specific resource file having a plurality of language-specific resources, the language neutral file and the language-specific resource file being created by reading localizable resource information contained in the resource manifest file, the localizable resource information specifying locations of specific resources to be retrieved during runtime from the language-specific resource file, the locations of the specific resources being mapped to resource identifiers used by applications to identify the specific resources within the language-specific resource file, in the resource manifest file, the resource manifest file further specifying a type of resource to be retrieved, and indicating whether the resource is localizable; creating a checksum data; updating a field in the resource manifest file with the checksum data; and the language-neutral file and language-specific resource file being created by splitting localizable resources identified by the localizable resource information into neutral and localized files, and by creating a language-neutral image and a language-specific image of the retrieved resource file.