Using ResourceBundleMessageSource for Views

As far as possible, all @Bean of a Spring MVC project must be managed by its context definition classes. The labels, content headings, and tab title of the view pages, which the majority of developers take for granted, must not be hardcoded but declared also as Spring-managed components.

Getting started

This recipe will manage lighter features of an application such as error names, labels, header names, and titles using the ApplicationContext.

How to do it...

Let us add view labels and titles to the previous projects ch02-web-xml and ch02-web-jc, through the following steps:

1. In ch02-web-xml, create a messages_en_US.properties file in the src\main\resources\config directory.
2. A configuration file is composed of a code and message pair. The key is called the lookup of the message and also called the code of the message. Open messages_en_US.properties and add the following label to be used later in our title bar:

title=Creating View Titles 

3. Add another message...