concatenating resources files - in which class?

[Jonathan]

Anyone have any suggestions as to where in the code I should concatenate my multiple resource files?  I actually would like the resource files to be in the same directory as the templates to which they pertain (ie in with the jsp files).  Assuming I put my jsp's in WEB-INF/pages, I guess I would have to put the WEB-INF in the classpath as well so that the properties files are visible to the ActionServlet.