Spring MVC Beginner's Guide

Time for action – externalizing messages

Let's see how to externalize the label texts in our addProduct.jsp file:

1. We open our addProduct.jsp file and add the following taglib reference at the top:

   <%@ taglib prefix="spring" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" %>

2. Change the product ID <label> tag's value as <spring:message code="addProdcut.form.productId.label"/>, as shown as follows:

   <label class="control-label col-lg-2 col-lg-2" for="productId"> <spring:message code=  "addProduct.form.productId.label"/> </label>

3. We create a file called messages.properties under /src/main/resources in our project and add the following line in it:

   addProduct.form.productId.label = New Product ID

4. Now, we open our web application context configuration file DispatcherServlet-context.xml ...