Message bundle setup

First, let's set up a message bundler. The code snippet from the spring context is as follows:

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

Important points to note are as follows:

• class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource": We are configuring a reloadable resource bundle. Support reloading properties through the cacheSeconds setting.
• <property name="basename" value="classpath:messages" />: Configure the loading of properties from the messages.properties and messages_{locale}.properties file. We will discuss the locale soon.

Let's configure a couple of property files and make them available in the src/main/resources folder:

    message_en.properties 
    welcome.caption=Welcome in English 
    message_fr.properties 
    welcome.caption=Bienvenue - Welcome in French

We can display the message from the message bundle in a view using the spring:message tag:

    <spring:message code="welcome.caption" />