Unable to locate MessageSource

I've been getting this message time and time again while defining it inside the applicationContext.xml

Following the countries example, i had only that bean defined inside the context, and the servlet beans in servletName-servlet.xml

after two hours of frustration i copied exactly the same bean into the servlet config, commenting out the one in the "context" and it worked!

applicationContext.xml

Code:

---

<beans>
<!--
        <bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource">       
                <property name="basename"><value>messages</value></property>                                                                               
        </bean>
 -->
</beans>

---

servletName-servlet.xml

Code:

---

<beans>

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

---

No reference to the contextConfigLocation in web.xml just like countries.

I can't understand why countries load the messageSource inside the applicationContext.xml and not in servletName-servlet.xml like i did.

thanks

Fernando Racca

How do you load the applicationContext.xml? do you have any ContextLoaderListener / ContextLoaderServlet configured in web.xml.
Also, can you post the exception you receive?
I configure the ResourceBundleMessageSource inside applicationContext.xml and it works just fine.

well, i wasn't using the ContextLoaderServlet, i forgot that.

now i've put it in the web.xml and i was expecting for it to work. surprisingly enough, it didn't. the same message time and time again :(

after a careful reding of the log, i've noted that applicationContext.xml was being initialized after servletName-servlet.xml, it had a race condition because the two servlets were put to load on startup at level 1.

now it works perfectly :)

thanks for your quick reply!

Fernando Racca