Working my way through the first chapter of Jakarta Struts Live book, I could not get my own application working, failing at the
<bean:message key="welcome.databaseSelection"/>
The annoying thing was that the JSP page containing this statement remained blank! Inspection in the Tomcat log files showed that there was a problem with the resource bundle:
Cannot find message resources under key org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE
On the Internet I found that I had to add
<message-resources parameter= "resources/application" />
to the struts-config.xml (right after the action-mapping section!), where my resource bundle resides in
WEB-INF/classes/resources/application.properties
I could not find any mention of this in the book though!
it also works by creating a file called ApplicationResources.properties in your WEB-INF/classes dir, and adding
as a parameter to the actionservlet-declaration in web.xml
(hmm add a ‘-‘ before or after ‘param’, the wordpress thingy doesn’t like it if i use it)