how to use messages with freemarker in spring mvc?

Question

In a .jsp I would use:

to display a message from my messages.properties file.

How would

Answer 1

Others are fine answers. Providing java config as example for those that use that.

 @Bean(name = "freemarkerConfig")
public FreeMarkerConfigurer freemarkerConfig() {
    FreeMarkerConfigurer configurer = new FreeMarkerConfigurer();
    configurer.setTemplateLoaderPaths("/WEB-INF/views/", 'classpath:/templates');
    Map map = new HashMap<>();
    map.put("xml_escape", new XmlEscape());
    configurer.setFreemarkerVariables(map)
    def settings = new Properties()
    settings['auto_import']  =  'spring.ftl as spring,layout/application.ftl as l,/macros/meh.ftl as meh'
    configurer.setFreemarkerSettings(settings)
    log.info "returning freemarker config"
    return configurer;
}