Getting MessageResources in ActionForm Validate

[Mark Reyes]

Hi All,

This question might have been asked many times but I have tried googling for sites but found no answers yet.

I just want to know on how I can have a reference on the nice MessageResources class of Struts in my action form validate method so
I wont hardcode my messages?

I have tried the following code but it was deprecated already.

MessageResources resource= (MessageResources)request.getAttribute(Action.MESSAGE_KEY);    

I also found this piece of code but it keeps on returning null messageresource object.

 MessageResources resource= (MessageResources)request.getAttribute(Globals.MESSAGE_KEY);   

I know I can get it from my action class but I need to know if I could access it in both the validate and reset method of the action form. Thanks!