How to show values from property file in JSP in a spring MVC app

<bean class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource" 
    id="messageSource"
    p:basenames="WEB-INF/i18n/site"
    p:fallbackToSystemLocale="false"/>

Now this is your Properties File

site.name=Cool Bananas

And here goes your JSP

<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" prefix="spring" %>
<html>
  <head>
    <title><spring:message code="site.name"/></title>
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>

Spring config

<util:properties id="propertyConfigurer" 
                  location="classpath:yourPropertyFileClasspathHere "/>
<context:property-placeholder properties-ref="propertyConfigurer" />

jsp

<spring:eval expression="@propertyConfigurer.getProperty('propertyNameHere')" />

What you can also do that doesn't tie you to looking up properties in a single property placeholder, or if you are using java config and just instantiating a PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer is use the environment object:

<spring:eval expression="@environment.getProperty('application_builtBy')" />

Tags:

Java

Spring

Jsp

Spring Mvc

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