Question

Attempting to get Spring internationalization working. I have used classpath:messages basename, created .properties files for languages. They are being corectly copied to web-inf folder and the codes exist within properties file …

Here is the ide showing everything, please help me. I have copied the set up from another project I have done that works fine. I have tried creating a load of different message files, but its not picking anything up … pic shows web.xml, spring-servlet.xml, and directory structure.

Edit
If I add the bean definition to applicationContext instead of spring-servlet it works .. ?

Answer 1

I’ll go for my try:

If the file is located under the WEB-INF/classes directory, try :

<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="basename" value="WEB-INF/classes/messages" />
</bean>

And the name of the file should be either :

• messages.properties
• messages_en.properties
• messages_en_GB.properties

Edit – Final try !

What about this way of writing the configuration, I smell sthg here after your last comment:

<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="basename" value="classpath:messages" />
    <property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
</bean>
<bean id="localeResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.CookieLocaleResolver">
    <property name="defaultLocale" value="en" />
</bean>

<mvc:interceptors>
    <bean id="localeChangeInterceptor" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.LocaleChangeInterceptor">
        <property name="paramName" value="lang" />
    </bean>
</mvc:interceptors>