Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I've Struts 1 action which sends a recommendation mail from a webpage but it doesn't read the messageresource properly. I get the output in portuguese no which language I set it to.
I've in my struts-config.xml

 <controller locale="false" />

and this is my action:

/*
 * RecommendAction.java
 *
 * Created on den 8 maj 2006, 16:04
 *
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 */
package marketleader;

import org.apache.struts.action.*;
import org.apache.log4j.*;
import org.apache.struts.util.*;
import marketleader.util.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;

public class RecommendAction extends Action {

    Logger log = Logger.getLogger(this.getClass());

    @Override
    public ActionForward execute(
            ActionMapping mapping,
            ActionForm form,
            HttpServletRequest request,
            HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
        setLocale(request, new Locale(Constants.LANGUAGE, Constants.COUNTRY));
        RecommendForm myForm = (RecommendForm) form;
        String smtpServer = Constants.SMTP_SERVER;
        String subject = "";
        String body = "";
        String id = request.getParameter("id");
        Connection conn = null;
        try {
            conn = DBSettings.getConnection();
            String sql = "select subject from classifieds where id=?";
            PreparedStatement st = conn.prepareStatement(sql);
            st.setString(1, id);
            ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery();
            if (rs.next()) {
                subject = rs.getString("subject");
            }
        } catch (Exception sqlEx) {
            log.error("SQLException", sqlEx);
        //TODO forward to error page
        } finally {
            try {
                conn.close();
            } catch (SQLException sqlEx) {
                //TODO forward to error page
                log.error("SQLException", sqlEx);
            }
        }
        //setLocale(request, new Locale(Constants.LANGUAGE, Constants.COUNTRY));
        //setLocale(request, new Locale("sv", "SE"));
        MessageResources messageResources = getResources(request);
        log.info("messageresources config"+messageResources.getConfig());
        setLocale(request, new Locale(Constants.LANGUAGE, Constants.COUNTRY));
        String mess = "(" + messageResources.getMessage("this.email") + " <a href=\"http://" + request.getServerName() + "\">" + request.getServerName() + "</a> " + messageResources.getMessage("not.to.be.answered");
        mess = mess + "<br><br>" + messageResources.getMessage("your.friend") + " <b>" + myForm.getName() + "</b> " + messageResources.getMessage("recommends.the.ad") + " <a href=\"http://" + request.getServerName() + "\">" + request.getServerName() + "</a>.";
        mess = mess + "<br><br>" + messageResources.getMessage("click.link");
        mess = mess + "<br><br><a href=\"http://" + request.getServerName() + "/vi/" + id + ".htm" + "\">http://" + request.getServerName() + "/vi/" + id + ".htm</a>";
        mess = mess + "<br><br><b>" + messageResources.getMessage("sent.by.system") + " " + request.getServerName().replaceAll("www.", "") + ".";
        mess = mess + "<br><br><a href=\"http://" + request.getServerName().replaceAll("www.", "") + "\">" + request.getServerName().replaceAll("www.", "") + "</a> - " + messageResources.getMessage("buy.and.sell.site");
        log.info("sending recommendation mail");
        //new MarketMail(Constants.SMTP_SERVER, myForm.getEmail(), "no-reply@" + request.getServerName(), "Rekommendation: " + subject, mess, request.getServerName());
        log.info("email:" + myForm.getEmail());
        new MarketMail(Constants.SMTP_SERVER, myForm.getEmail(), "info@" + request.getServerName().replaceAll("www.", ""), subject, mess, request.getServerName().replaceAll("www.", ""));
        request.setAttribute("message", "<p>" + messageResources.getMessage("congratulations") + " <b>" + myForm.getName() + "</b><br><br>" + messageResources.getMessage("recommendation.was.sent")+"<br><br>" + messageResources.getMessage("thanks.for.using.our.services")+"<br><br>");
        return mapping.findForward("success");
    }
}

Neither setting the locale in the code nor from a properties file works. On Linux that is. On MS-windows results are working well. What could be the bug?
Thank you for your help.
Niklas