title: JSTL fmt:message and resource bundle result in ???hello?
body: <p>i am trying to use JSLT.
  i followed some instructions.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>i've installed a tomcat on xamppp activated it with the control panel and it's working fine on port 8080.</li>
  <li>in the WEB-INF\lib directory i've added a "jstl-1.2.jar" file and a Messages_en_US.properties</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>this is my test.jsp:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;fmt:setLocale value="en_US" scope="application"/&gt;
  &lt;fmt:setBundle basename="Messages"/&gt;
  &lt;fmt:message key="welcome" /&gt;
  
  &lt;h1&gt;test&lt;/h1&gt;
  
  &lt;p&gt;Counting to three:&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;% for (int i=1; i&lt;4; i++) { %&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;This number is &lt;%= i %&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;% } %&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;Done counting.&lt;/p&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the counting worked so my jsp is valid.
  but the welcome just shows ???welcome???.</p>
  
  <p>what am i doing wrong?
  am i putting the bundles in the right directory?
  i tried putting the messages bundle in classes and in WEB-INF - no help.
  i also tried restarting the server - it didn't help.</p>
  
  <p>how can i use string bundles? how can i use several bundles?</p>
  
  <p>cheers,</p>