Question

<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource"
        p:basename="messages" />

bean and obviously in my velocity files I can use #springMessage() to get needed message. But what if I want to get that message in my *.java controller? Is there some annotation that I can use like ?

@Annotation('message')
private String message;

Or I need to do it in different way?

Thanks

Answer 1

As long as you don’t need any internationalization, then you can use the messages.properties file with a PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer (see the docs), along with the @Value annotation

In XML:

<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
   <property name="locations" value="classpath:messages.properties"/>
</bean>

And in Java:

@Value('message')
private String message;

You’ll also need <context:annotation-config/> to make this work (see docs)