How to get info from messages.properties

[gopu]

I have stored a constant by name [B]maxNumber=50[/B} in my messages.properties file. I am able to access this value in my jsp as follows:

 <fmt:message var="Number" key="maxNumber"/>

How do I call maxNumber from my messages.properties in my controller. Please let me know!

[Dave Syer]

Make your Controller implement MessageSourceAware and use the MessageSource to access the maxNumber message.

[gopu]

Make your Controller implement MessageSourceAware and use the MessageSource to access the maxNumber message.

Thanks for your help. I did try as follows:

class Sample implements MessageSourceAware {

import org.springframework.context.MessageSource;
import org.springframework.context.MessageSourceAware;
import org.springframework.context.MessageSourceResolvable;

 private MessageSource messageSource;

 public void setMessageSource(MessageSource messageSource) {

        messageSource = messageSource;
 }

public void foo(){
      messageSource.getMessage(maxNumber,x,y);
}
}

What are these X and Y

I have also included bean part in my configuration file as follows.

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

Please clarify about X(object) and Y(locale). Thanks again.

[Dave Syer]

It's pretty clear in the JavaDocs from what I can see http://static.springframework.org/sp...a.util.Locale)