Spring ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource bean unable to find external properties

Question

I've tried to use the Mkyong's guide to access external properties file, without any success.

This is my bean definition in web-osgi-context.xml file located in WEB-INF:

<bean id="messageSource"
    class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="basenames">
    <list>
        <value>classpath:bundles/resource</value>
        <value>classpath:bundles/override</value>
        <value>file:c:/test/messages</value>
    </list>
    </property>
    <property name="cacheSeconds" value="10"/>      
</bean>

Accessing the bean:

@SpringBean
private ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource messageSource;

Trying to extract the message like this:

String name = messageSource.getMessage("customer.name",
        new Object[] { 28,"http://www.mkyong.com" }, Locale.US);

System.out.println("Customer name (English) : " + name);

I have messages_en_US.properties files in both C:/test/messages and C:/test folders. They contain following line:

customer.name=Test, age : {0}, URL : {1}

That's all I have, am I missing something? The message I get is:

org.springframework.context.NoSuchMessageException: No message found under code 'customer.name' for locale 'en_US'.
 at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractMessageSource.getMessage(AbstractMessageSource.java:155)

Btw, I also tried internal properties, also without success. I deploy my .war in my local servicemix(6.1.1), I also use wicket (6.24.0) and spring (3.2.14). Running mkyong's application(which is not a web application) locally (without deploying it on my local servicemix works).

Answer 1

Sooo I somewhat found the problem and got a workaroud..

This didn't work:

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

And in Code:

@SpringBean
private ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource messageSource;

By running getClass() on this source I get

class WICKET_org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$852b0c02

---

But this is working:

@Bean
public MessageSource messageSource() {
     ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource messageSource = new ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource();
     messageSource.setBasename("classpath:messages");
     return messageSource;
}

By running getClass() on this source I get

class org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource

Is it possible that Cglib enhancer is messing thigs up here? Any way I can make first option working knowing that?