My end goal is to be able to use the spring message tag with configured messageSource on a legacy app using a model-1 architecture.

I've done this in tomcat with something like

<bean id="messageSource"
      class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="basename" value="WEB-INF/classes/bundle"/>
</bean>

<bean id="urlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
    <property name="mappings">
        <props>
            <prop key="*">myServletForwardingController</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
</bean>

<bean id="myServletForwardingController" name="/**/*.jsp"
      class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.ServletForwardingController">
    <property name="servletName" value="jsp"/>
</bean>

For weblogic I have

<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
        <property name="basenames">
            <list>
                <value>WEB-INF/i18n/bundle</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean name="/**/*.jsp" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.ServletForwardingController">
        <property name="servletName" value="JspServlet"/>
    </bean>

But, no luck. I'm getting a StackOverflowError when I attempt to access a JSP.

java.lang.StackOverflowError at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124) at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.defineClass(GenericClassLoader.java:338) at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findLocalClass(GenericClassLoader.java:291) at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findClass(GenericClassLoader.java:259) at weblogic.utils.classloaders.ChangeAwareClassLoader.findClass(ChangeAwareClassLoader.java:54) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251) at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.loadClass(GenericClassLoader.java:179) at weblogic.utils.classloaders.ChangeAwareClassLoader.loadClass(ChangeAwareClassLoader.java:35) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124) at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.defineClass(GenericClassLoader.java:338) at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findLocalClass(GenericClassLoader.java:291) at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findClass(GenericClassLoader.java:259) at weblogic.utils.classloaders.ChangeAwareClassLoader.findClass(ChangeAwareClassLoader.java:54) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251) at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.loadClass(GenericClassLoader.java:179) at weblogic.utils.classloaders.ChangeAwareClassLoader.loadClass(ChangeAwareClassLoader.java:35) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:683) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:552) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820) at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:226) at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:124) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:283) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.onAddToMapException(ServletStubImpl.java:394) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:309) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:175) at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.invokeServlet(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:533) at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:266) at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.ServletForwardingController.handleRequestInternal(ServletForwardingController.java:129) at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.AbstractController.handleRequest(AbstractController.java:153) at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter.handle(SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter.java:48) at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:771) at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:647) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:552) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820) ...