How to configure messages.properties in spring bean annotation? - spring

Question

I am starting a new project with spring 4 and I am confusing how I can map my i18n file: messages.properties..
In spring 3 I was using xml configuration like this:
<bean id="localeResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.CookieLocaleResolver" />
<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource">
<property name="basenames" value="messages" />
</bean>
<bean id="i18n" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean">
<property name="locations">
<list>
<value>classpath:/..../messages.properties</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="true" />
</bean>
And in my jsps files I access it by:
<spring:message code="any key" />
In spring 4 I am avoiding to use xml configuration.. I tried the following:
#Bean
public ResourceBundleMessageSource messageSource() throws Exception {
ResourceBundleMessageSource resourceBundleMessageSource = new ResourceBundleMessageSource();
resourceBundleMessageSource.setBasename("message.properties");
return resourceBundleMessageSource;
}
#Bean
public PropertiesFactoryBean propertiesFactoryBean() throws Exception {
PropertiesFactoryBean propertiesFactoryBean = new PropertiesFactoryBean();
Resource resource = new ClassPathResource("messages.properties");
propertiesFactoryBean.setLocation(resource);
return propertiesFactoryBean;
}
That class is annotated with #Configuration, but apparently is missing anything..
When I try to access index.jsp, I receive the following exception:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspTagException: No message found under code 'application.title' for locale 'pt_BR'.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

try
<spring:message code="myMessage"/> with <fmt:message key="myMessage"/>
and on web.xml
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.localizationContext</param-name>
<param-value>messages</param-value>
</context-param>
dont forget to add fmt taglib

Answer 2

You need to put file name for each local language. In your case you need
messages_BR.properties or messages_pt_BR.properties
And all the messages in those files.