6. The method of claim 1 wherein creating comprises: reading the localizable resource information from the resource manifest file, by reading a plurality of data fields comprising: a first data field containing data representing an element indicating the schema contains resource localization information; a second data field containing data representing an element associated with a user interface resource; a third data field containing data representing language dependency of the user interface resource element of the second data field; and a fourth data field containing data representing an element associated with a user interface resource type.
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.