Sharing properties files

The last example of localizing the list illustrates the value of sharing properties files. If we think about how a Pod is made up of various widgets, the complexity of which could extend to any number of widgets, then having 1 property file per widget would be difficult to maintain. For this reason it makes sense to share the same properties files for aggregated widgets such as Pods even though it is not technically necessary to do this.

In our example above, instead of creating a new properties file for the movies list widget, we can re-use the MyFavouriteMovies.properties file. Using this technique we have a single resource for all properties associated with the 'MyFavouriteMovies' Pod.