The mechanism was mainly designed for a basic search path using /apps and /libs. What is your use case with a search path like /apps/,/apps/bar, /apps/foo/ and localization?
If you just want to separate dictionaries: a) use different translation hints/comments for identical strings that need different translations in a different context; in CQ's i18n apis the key (for the resource bundle / sling:key) is built using "<string> ((<comment>))" if a comment is present b) you can have different dictionaries with a different "basename" [0] and access using [1] [0] http://sling.apache.org/site/internationalization-support.html [1] http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/javadoc/org/apache/sling/api/SlingHttpServletRequest.html#getResourceBundle(java.lang.String,%20java.util.Locale) HTH, Alex