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As I could not succeed in configuring messageSource through annotations, I attempted to configure messageSource injection through servlet-context.xml. I still have messageSource as null. Please let me know if you need any more specific info, and I will provide. Thanks for your help in advance.

servlet-context.xml
<beans:bean id="message"
    class="com.mycompany.myapp.domain.common.message.Message">
    <beans:property name="messageSource" ref="messageSource" />
</beans:bean>

Spring gives the below information message about spring initialization.

INFO : org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner - JSR-330 'javax.inject.Named' annotation found and supported for component scanning

INFO : org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Overriding bean definition for bean 'message': replacing [Generic bean: class [com.mycompany.myapp.domain.common.message.Message]; scope=singleton; abstract=false; lazyInit=false; autowireMode=0; dependencyCheck=0; autowireCandidate=true; primary=false; factoryBeanName=null; factoryMethodName=null; initMethodName=null; destroyMethodName=null; defined in file [C:\springsource\tc-server-developer-2.1.0.RELEASE\spring-insight-instance\wtpwebapps\myapp\WEB-INF\classes\com\mycompany\myapp\domain\common\message\Message.class]] with [Generic bean: class [com.mycompany.myapp.domain.common.message.Message]; scope=; abstract=false; lazyInit=false; autowireMode=0; dependencyCheck=0; autowireCandidate=true; primary=false; factoryBeanName=null; factoryMethodName=null; initMethodName=null; destroyMethodName=null; defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/servlet-context.xml]]

INFO : org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor - JSR-330 'javax.inject.Inject' annotation found and supported for autowiring

INFO : org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Pre-instantiating singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@1c7caac5: defining beans [org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping#0,org.springframework.format.support.FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean#0,org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean#0,org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter#0,org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.MappedInterceptor#0,org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.HttpRequestHandlerAdapter,org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.ResourceHttpRequestHandler#0,org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping#0,xxxDao,message,xxxService,jsonDateSerializer,xxxController,homeController,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalConfigurationAnnotationProcessor,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalAutowiredAnnotationProcessor,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalRequiredAnnotationProcessor,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalCommonAnnotationProcessor,tilesViewResolver,tilesConfigurer,messageSource,org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.MappedInterceptor#1,localeResolver,org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ContentNegotiatingViewResolver#0,validator,resourceBundleLocator,messageInterpolator]; parent: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@4f47af3

I have the below definition for message source in 3 classes. In debug mode, I can see that in class xxxController, messageSource is initialized to org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource. I have annotated Message class with @Component and xxxHibernateDaoImpl with @Repository. I also included context namespace definition in servlet-context.xml. But in Message class and xxxHibernateDaoImpl class, the messageSource is still null.

Why is Spring not initializing messageSource in the two other classes though in xxxController classes, it initializes correctly?

@Controller
public class xxxController{
    @Autowired
    private ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource messageSource;
}

@Component
public class Message{
 @Autowired
 private ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource messageSource;
}

@Repository("xxxDao")
public class xxxHibernateDaoImpl{
 @Autowired
 private ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource messageSource;
}

<beans:beans
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

<beans:bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
            <beans:property name="basename" value="/resources/messages/messages" />
</beans:bean>   

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.mycompany.myapp"/>
</beans>