I have a similar problem to: Using external properties files in weblogic and note that the accepted answer there is mainly working for me.
However, I have a follow-up (sorry, cannot work out how to just add comments to re-open the original question)
Does anyone know what the actual cause of this is and the "correct" (if there is such a thing) solution, or do people take copying files to the domain as a common practise in weblogic (10.3.3)
What I am using is:
Spring config has this:
the messages bean is then referenced in other beans
The error is
<11-Apr-2011 11:47:23 o'clock BST>
weblogic.application.ModuleException:
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:1514)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:486)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:425)
at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:41)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:119)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
Caused By: java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name config/messages, locale en_GB
at java.util.ResourceBundle.throwMissingResourceException(ResourceBundle.java:1521)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(ResourceBundle.java:1260)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:715)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
I have tried removing the config/ at the start (and copying the messages.properties to WEB-INF and also WEB-INF/classes, to no avail. Should also point out that all of messages, messages _en_GB and messages _en_US exist