title: How to obtain a current user locale from Spring without passing it as a parameter to functions?
body: <p>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 to the service layer ... etc. </p>
  
  <p>does spring store the locale in a thread local storage where it can be grabbed by calling some static method?</p>