How to obtain a current user locale from Spring without passing it as a parameter to functions?

Question

I am using Spring 3.1 and want to find the locale active for the current user is there a way to grab the locale directly without being forced to pass it from the controller

Answer 1

We had the same need, so came up with putting Locale into ThreadLocal context. We already had an object (some user information) stored in ThreadLocal context, so just appended it (looks like a hack, but the quickest solution we found).