title: Spring LocaleResolver not reacting to locale
body: <p>In my app, I've made a switch for two languages (Eng\Rus) that must change the locale for the app. But, Spring LocaleResolver is not reacting to the request. This is a freemarker DropDown switch with "locale" var:</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;ul class="nav"&gt;
     &lt;li class="dropdown"&gt;
          &lt;a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" &gt;&lt;@spring.message "header.lang_switch" /&gt;&lt;b class="caret"&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;ul class="dropdown-menu"&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="?locale=en_US"&gt;&lt;@spring.message "header.lang_switch_eng" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="?locale=ru_RU"&gt;&lt;@spring.message "header.lang_switch_ru" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;/ul&gt;
     &lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;/ul&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is my spring-servlet.xml config:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!-- serving up static resources --&gt;
  &lt;mvc:resources mapping="/static/**" location="/static/"/&gt;
  
  &lt;!-- Configures Handler Interceptors --&gt;
  &lt;bean id="localeChangeInterceptor"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.LocaleChangeInterceptor"
        p:paramName="locale"/&gt;
  
  &lt;!-- locale Resolver configuration--&gt;
  &lt;bean id="localeResolver"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.CookieLocaleResolver"&gt;
      &lt;!--&lt;property name="defaultLocale" value="en_US"/&gt;--&gt;
  &lt;/bean&gt;
  
  &lt;bean id="handlerMapping"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping"&gt;
      &lt;property name="interceptors"&gt;
          &lt;list&gt;
              &lt;ref bean="localeChangeInterceptor"/&gt;
          &lt;/list&gt;
      &lt;/property&gt;
  &lt;/bean&gt;
  
  &lt;!-- Application Message Bundle --&gt;
  &lt;bean id="messageSource"
        class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource"&gt;
      &lt;property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8"/&gt;
      &lt;property name="fileEncodings" value="UTF-8"/&gt;
      &lt;property name="cacheSeconds" value="0"/&gt;
      &lt;property name="fallbackToSystemLocale" value="false"/&gt;
      &lt;property name="useCodeAsDefaultMessage" value="true"/&gt;
      &lt;property name="basenames"&gt;
          &lt;list&gt;
              &lt;value&gt;/WEB-INF/messages/messages&lt;/value&gt;
              &lt;value&gt;/WEB-INF/messages/labels&lt;/value&gt;
              &lt;value&gt;/WEB-INF/messages/include&lt;/value&gt;
          &lt;/list&gt;
      &lt;/property&gt;
  &lt;/bean&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And web.xml config:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;filter&gt;
      &lt;filter-name&gt;characterEncodingFilter&lt;/filter-name&gt;
      &lt;filter-class&gt;org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter&lt;/filter-class&gt;
      &lt;init-param&gt;
          &lt;param-name&gt;encoding&lt;/param-name&gt;
          &lt;param-value&gt;UTF-8&lt;/param-value&gt;
      &lt;/init-param&gt;
      &lt;init-param&gt;
          &lt;param-name&gt;forceEncoding&lt;/param-name&gt;
          &lt;param-value&gt;true&lt;/param-value&gt;
      &lt;/init-param&gt;
  &lt;/filter&gt;
  &lt;filter-mapping&gt;
      &lt;filter-name&gt;characterEncodingFilter&lt;/filter-name&gt;
      &lt;url-pattern&gt;/*&lt;/url-pattern&gt;
  &lt;/filter-mapping&gt;
  
  &lt;!-- ===================== i18n configurations =============================================== --&gt;
  &lt;filter&gt;
      &lt;filter-name&gt;localizationFilter&lt;/filter-name&gt;
      &lt;filter-class&gt;org.springframework.web.filter.RequestContextFilter&lt;/filter-class&gt;
  &lt;/filter&gt;
  &lt;filter-mapping&gt;
      &lt;filter-name&gt;localizationFilter&lt;/filter-name&gt;
      &lt;url-pattern&gt;/*&lt;/url-pattern&gt;
  &lt;/filter-mapping&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I hard-code "defaultLocale" in "localeResolver" the page will load properly and all translation will be made properly. I clearly can see in fireBug that after switching locale, the locale changes in the page header. But, the content does not change on the page.  </p>
  
  <p>I have all needed configs that usualy needed:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;context:annotation-config/&gt;
  &lt;context:component-scan base-package="serverMonitoring"/&gt;
  &lt;mvc:annotation-driven /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Changes in LocalChangeInterseptor didn't give any changes:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;mvc:interceptors&gt;
      &lt;bean id="localeChangeInterceptor"
            class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.LocaleChangeInterceptor"
            p:paramName="locale"/&gt;
  &lt;/mvc:interceptors&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>One more thing; Does Spring-security have anything to do with Interceptor mechanism?
  Any help appreciated!!! Thank you.</p>