Why messages don't show up?

Question

I have message property files in my Spring web application. The following is a related configuration:

    @Bean
public MessageSource messageSource() {

    ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource messageSource = new ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource();
    messageSource.setBasenames("classpath:messages");
    messageSource.setUseCodeAsDefaultMessage(true);
    messageSource.setDefaultEncoding("UTF-8");
    messageSource.setCacheSeconds(0);
    return messageSource;
}

The message in the property doesn't show up but the key with a language suffix. For example, a key, nav.welcome, in the property file is shown on a web page as ??nav.welcome_en?? I use Gradlew to run my application. And I see the messages.properties file on the root of the class path.

C:\Users\vic\workspace-sts\myapp\build\tmp\tomcatRunWar\work\Tomcat\localhost\_\WEB-INF\classes>

After turning up org.springframework.web log level, I see the following related log messages:

DEBUG: AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext:649 - Unable to locate MessageSource with name 'messageSource': using default [org.springframework.context.support.DelegatingMessageSource@2a83e48a]

and

DEBUG: AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext:639 - Using MessageSource [org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource: basenames=[classpath:messages]]

What is missing here?

@Rembo I try your suggestion without a luck. My old XML configuration also comes without "classpath" part as — vic, Mar 06 '14 at 19:15
where you kept messages.properties file? in src/main/resources folder? — Abhishek Nayak, Mar 07 '14 at 04:23
@Rembo It is in the root of the class path in a deployment environment. In the development environment, it is in the src/main/resources. I am wondering whether the problem is related with view resolver or not. — vic, Mar 08 '14 at 05:33
@Rembo No. There isn't a such bean in my project Java configuration. It isn't in my old XML configuration either. — vic, Mar 09 '14 at 03:53

Why messages don't show up?

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