spring:message (I18n) giving error : No message found under code 'property.name' for locale 'en'

Question

I am implementing spring internationalization(i18n). It is working fine in my local environment on eclipse. But when i deploy it on a dev server it gives this error.

javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspTagException: No message found under code 'property.name' for locale 'en'.
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:916)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:845)
org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.pages.PayLinkForm_002dMercadoPago_jsp._jspService(PayLinkForm_002dMercadoPago_jsp.java:618)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)

My spring-mvc-config.xml has these settings :

<!-- For setting internationalization -->
<bean id="localeResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.SessionLocaleResolver">
    <property name="defaultLocale" value="en"/>
</bean>

<!-- call this interceptor before any controller call and change the default language, if language parameter is there in the URL -->
<mvc:interceptors> 
    <bean id="localeChangeInterceptor" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.LocaleChangeInterceptor"> 
        <property name="paramName" value="language" /> 
    </bean> 
</mvc:interceptors>

<!-- Register the language.properties -->
<bean id="messageSource"
    class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="basename">
        <value>config/language</value> 
    </property>
</bean>

I think it is not able to detect the properties file on the dev server due to some kind of path issue. Although the path defined here "config/language" works fine in my local.

Can you please check the files are available in the .war file and in the deployment directory? Does the error occure for all messages oder just for one? — try-catch-finally, Nov 13 '15 at 06:52
I had a look at the .war file and the properties files are not there. I tried doing the maven build again, but they were still not there. Any suggestion how can I get them to be there? And yes this problem is there for all properties, just that i am using a default text everywhere else in case the text is not found, so other properties are not throwing an error but instead showing the default text. — ishanbakshi, Nov 13 '15 at 07:56

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 17 '15 at 00:12

I resolved the problem by following steps :

1) replace the language registration by this tag (used org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource instead of org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource ) :

<!-- Register the language.properties -->
<bean id="messageSource"
    class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="basename" value="/WEB-INF/i18n/language" />
</bean>

2) place the language.properties anywhere in WEB-INF (this was very important) :

spring:message (I18n) giving error : No message found under code 'property.name' for locale 'en'

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