strange resourceBundle issue

[boudewijn]

Hello,

I have my internationalization working correctly locally (Windows 7), that is, externalContext.locale and resourceBundle return the correct values according to the selected locale. I can change the locale by adding ?locale=<locale> to the URL, so all is fine.

However, now I've installed the app on a preproduction server (Centos linux), externalContext.locale still shows the correct locale (even when I change it), but the resourceBundle always returns the english text.
My message files are organized as messages.properties (Spanish messages) and messages_en.properties (English messages).

web-application-config.xml contains the following:

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

		</property>
		<property name="useCodeAsDefaultMessage" value="true"/>
	</bean>
	<bean id="localeChangeInterceptor"
		class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.LocaleChangeInterceptor">
		<property name="paramName" value="locale" />
	</bean>

	<!-- Declare the Resolver -->
	<bean id="localeResolver"
		class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.SessionLocaleResolver" />

So it seems the interceptor is working correctly on linux, externalContext is updated correctly, but resourceBundle doesn't pick up the locale; it chooses the messages_en.properties file instead of the default one.
My local machine has Spanish language installed, the server is English based, although in theory that shouldn't influence..

Any ideas?

Regards, Bo

[boudewijn]

when I take out <property name="useCodeAsDefaultMessage" value="true"/>

I get the following error message in the log:
org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableReso urceBundleMessageSource - No properties file found for [messages] - neither plain properties nor XML

However, in WEB-INF/classes the files messages.properties and messages_en.properties are present.

I have it installed on tomcat 7.

Anybody has any idea?