Cannot locate message in MessageSource

Question

I am trying to get one simple spring application running but getting following exception:

javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspTagException: No message found under code 'label.firstname' for locale 'en_US'.

My contact.jsp file:

<%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" prefix="spring"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="form"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core_rt" prefix="c" %>
<%@ page isELIgnored="false" %>

<html>
<head>
    <title>Spring 3 MVC Series - Contact Manager | viralpatel.net</title>
</head>
<body>

<h2>Contact Manager</h2>

<form:form method="post" action="add.html" commandName="contact">

    <table>
    <tr>
        <td><form:label path="firstname"><spring:message code="label.firstname"/></form:label></td>
        <td><form:input path="firstname" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td><form:label path="lastname"><spring:message code="label.lastname"/></form:label></td>
        <td><form:input path="lastname" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td><form:label path="email"><spring:message code="label.email"/></form:label></td>
        <td><form:input path="email" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td><form:label path="telephone"><spring:message code="label.telephone"/></form:label></td>
        <td><form:input path="telephone" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="2">
            <input type="submit" value="<spring:message code="label.addcontact"/>"/>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</form:form>

<h3>Contacts</h3>
<c:if  test="${!empty contactList}">
<table class="data">
<tr>
    <th>Name</th>
    <th>Email</th>
    <th>Telephone</th>
    <th>&nbsp;</th>
</tr>
<c:forEach items="${contactList}" var="contact">
    <tr>
        <td>${contact.lastname}, ${contact.firstname} </td>
        <td>${contact.email}</td>
        <td>${contact.telephone}</td>
        <td><a href="delete/${contact.id}">delete</a></td>
    </tr>
</c:forEach>
</table>
</c:if>

</body>
</html>

My spring-servlet.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xmlns:lang="http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang"
    xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">

    <context:annotation-config />
    <context:component-scan base-package="net.viralpatel.contact" />

    <bean id="jspViewResolver"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="viewClass"
            value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="messageSource"
        class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
        <property name="basename" value="WEB-INF/messages" />
        <property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
    </bean>



    <bean id="propertyConfigurer"
        class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
        p:location="/WEB-INF/jdbc.properties" />

<!--    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" -->
<!--        destroy-method="close" p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}" -->
<!--        p:url="${jdbc.databaseurl}" p:username="${jdbc.username}" p:password="${jdbc.password}" /> -->

    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
        destroy-method="close" p:driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
        p:url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/ContactManager" p:username="root" p:password="12345" />


    <bean id="sessionFactory"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
        <property name="configLocation">
            <value>classpath:hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
        </property>
        <property name="configurationClass">
            <value>org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration</value>
        </property>
        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${jdbc.dialect}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <tx:annotation-driven />
    <bean id="transactionManager"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
    </bean>

</beans>

I am hitting url:

localhost:8080/MavenWeb-0.0.1/index

and my server stacktrace:

SEVERE: No message found under code 'label.firstname' for locale 'en_US'.
javax.servlet.jsp.JspTagException: No message found under code 'label.firstname' for locale 'en_US'.
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.MessageTag.doStartTagInternal(MessageTag.java:184)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.RequestContextAwareTag.doStartTag(RequestContextAwareTag.java:79)
    at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.contact_jsp._jspx_meth_spring_005fmessage_005f0(contact_jsp.java:252)
    at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.contact_jsp._jspx_meth_form_005flabel_005f0(contact_jsp.java:219)
    at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.contact_jsp._jspx_meth_form_005fform_005f0(contact_jsp.java:138)
    at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.contact_jsp._jspService(contact_jsp.java:91)
    at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
    at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:419)
    at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:389)
    at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:333)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:304)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:684)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:471)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:402)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:329)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputModel(InternalResourceView.java:238)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:250)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1047)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:817)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:719)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:644)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:549)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:304)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:240)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:164)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:462)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:164)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:563)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:403)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:301)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:162)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:309)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Steps to get issue resolved:

Place messages_en.properties files in src/main/resource folder only
Make sure name of file is correct as messages_en.properties and not message_en.properties
When you do maven build using mvn clean install messages_en.properties file will appear in target/projectname/WEB-INF/classes/messages.properties
Check in spring-servlet.xml(name may vary) and use classpath:messages as basename in messageSource

and it should work as it resolved my issue.

<bean id="messageSource"
    class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="basename" value="classpath:messages" />
    <property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
</bean>

matt b · Accepted Answer

Your MessageSource bean definition is a little confusing. Typically the basename is the prefix of the filename (minus .properties) you want to use for the message resolution, which Spring and the JDK ResourceBundle class will append the language and/or country abbreviation to.

<bean id="messageSource"
    class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="basename" value="WEB-INF/message_en.properties/Message" />
    <property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
</bean>

For example, if you intended to have resource files like messages.properties, messages_es.properties, messages_de.properties you would specify a basename of WEB-INF/messages.

What is the actual name of your message bundle file(s)?

Ahmed · Answer

I had the same problem, the solution was:

Place the messages.properties file in the source folder src/main/resources

Define the Bean as follow:

<bean id="messageSource"
         class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
<property name="basename" value="classpath:messages" />
<property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />

You see that I put in property the same name of the file messages.properties without .properties

that was the problem ^^

Cannot locate message in MessageSource

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