Cannot find message resources under key org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE in struts - struts

Question

I am getting the following error in the browser window :
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find message resources under key org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE
I have included the resource file in the struts-config.xml using
And my resource file is stored as WEB-INF/classes/Application.properties file.

Answer 1

Well this is an old post, but my answer can help, I guess...
I personally wasted some time to make work a poject that had been developped under Tomcat 5.5 under Tomcat 7.
Note : You should name your ressource file : "ApplicationResources"...
There is several reasons why it wouldn't work, but the most common answer I found on the net was : put the line
<message-resources parameter="ApplicationResources" null="false" />
in your "struts-config.xml".
In my case, this line was already present, and this was the contrary : I had to remove it and replace at the "web.xml" file level by :
<context-param>
<param-name>application</param-name>
<param-value>ApplicationResources</param-value>
</context-param>
in the "servlet" tag.
I'm sorry that I don't have a valuable explanation for this, but my application behaves just fine now.
Does anyone has (an explanation) ?

Answer 2

This happened to me because I was converting my project to maven and my resources directory was not correct.
I had struts-config.xml like this:
<message-resources parameter="messages.appResources" null="false"/>
My pom.xml was like this:
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
</resource>
But my messages folder was in my project root. So I moved it to:
${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/messages

Answer 3

Make sur that you are using the same version of the DTD in the header of struts-config.xml:
I had this error when using two differents versions:
//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_3.dtd">
and the Pb was solved once the correction made:

Answer 4

An XML might be missing...
In which context is your application running ? Tomcat ? JBoss ?
Try including xalan and xerces dependencies.

Answer 5

The following solved my problem:
In Struts Config, include:
(At the top)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.3//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_3.dtd">
<message-resources
parameter="common.properties.Common" /> (or the path to your resources file)
This error seems to be caused by a lack of a path to message-resource in struts-config.xml
and the DOCTYPE definition at the top of the same.

Answer 6

you should put this line in your struts-config.xml
< message-resources parameter="ApplicationResources" null="false" key="ApplicationResources" />

Answer 7

In my case problem was fixed after delete all unnecessary attributes from message-resources element in struts-config.xml file. Just like following:
<message-resources parameter="ApplicationResources"/>