Resource bundle properties file in Spring MVC

[Rina Magro]

Hi all
I am trying to configure the Resource Bundle properties file in Spring MVC with no succcess.
I am using Tomcat on Eclipse IDE. In my xml file i tried this:

<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource">
       <property name="basename"><value>messages</value></property>
</bean>

and tried creating a messages.properties file under my build/classes , under WEB-INF and under various places but when i try to load a message through

 <fmt:message key="greeting"/>
   

im always getting this ???greeting??? (not finding the message)
Any suggestions please cos I am quite new to Spring MVC
thanks lots
Rina

[Christophe Verré]

Did you try under WEB-INF/classes ? And what it the name of your property file ?

[Aditya Jha]

Hi,

I assume 'fmt' means JSTL taglib with URI as 'http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt'.

JSTL is independent of Spring MVC, and hence, a resource-bundle loaded via Spring MVC can not be directly referred using JSTL. You can use 'fmt' taglib to load the resource-bundle also, in which case 'fmt:message' will work.

However, I would recommend replacing

<fmt:message key="greeting"/>

with

<spring:message code="greeting" />

where 'spring' prefix is for Spring MVC taglib with URI as 'http://www.springframework.org/tags'.

A resource-bundle loaded via Spring MVC can easily be accessed using Spring MVC taglibs.

Another point... for simplicity, consider changing

<property name="basename"><value>messages</value></property>

to

<property name="basename" value="messages" />

in the configuration.

Best regards,

- Aditya Jha

[ranjinie Nama]

<fmt:message key="greeting"/> tag will work. when you update your messages in a messagebundle.

Stop your server and restart or redeploy your project.

???......??? will go away and show the real message