Issue with spring profiles not being picked up by cloudfoundry - spring

Question

I am encountering problems getting spring profiles to work with cloudfoundry. My profiles are not picked up by cloudfoundry's tomcat...
Here is my web.xml:
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="3.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" metadata-complete="true">
<display-name>kadjoukor</display-name>
<description>Roo generated kadjoukor application</description>
<!-- Enable escaping of form submission contents -->
<context-param>
<param-name>defaultHtmlEscape</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>classpath*:META-INF/spring/applicationContext*.xml classpath:META-INF/cloud/cloudfoundry-auto-reconfiguration-context.xml</param-value></context-param>
<filter>
<filter-name>CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>encoding</param-name>
<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter>
<filter-name>HttpMethodFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.HiddenHttpMethodFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter>
<filter-name>Spring OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>HttpMethodFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>Spring OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<!-- Creates the Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<listener>
<listener-class>
org.springframework.security.web.session.HttpSessionEventPublisher
</listener-class>
</listener>
<!-- Handles Spring requests -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>kadjoukor</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>WEB-INF/spring/webmvc-config.xml classpath:META-INF/cloud/cloudfoundry-auto-reconfiguration-context.xml</param-value></init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>kadjoukor</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>30</session-timeout><!-- TODO -->
</session-config>
<context-param><param-name>contextInitializerClasses</param-name><param-value>org.cloudfoundry.reconfiguration.spring.CloudApplicationContextInitializer</param-value></context-param></web-app>
Here is the content of the WEB-INF/libs directory:
activation-1.1.1.jar 67.8K
antlr-2.7.6.jar 433.0K
aopalliance-1.0.jar 4.4K
asm-3.3.1.jar 42.6K
aspectjrt-1.7.0.RC1.jar 113.5K
aspectjweaver-1.7.0.RC1.jar 1.7M
auto-reconfiguration-0.6.5.jar 693.3K
cglib-2.2.2.jar 280.5K
cglib-nodep-2.2.2.jar 319.3K
commons-beanutils-1.8.3.jar 226.6K
commons-codec-1.5.jar 71.4K
commons-collections-3.2.1.jar 561.9K
commons-dbcp-1.3.jar 145.3K
commons-digester-2.1.jar 192.2K
commons-fileupload-1.2.2.jar 58.2K
commons-io-2.1.jar 159.3K
commons-lang3-3.1.jar 308.4K
commons-logging-1.0.4.jar 37.1K
commons-pool-1.5.6.jar 98.1K
dom4j-1.6.1.jar 306.5K
ehcache-core-2.6.0.jar 1.3M
flexjson-2.1.jar 79.2K
guava-11.0.2.jar 1.6M
hamcrest-core-1.1.jar 74.8K
hibernate-commons-annotations-3.2.0.Final.jar 69.6K
hibernate-core-3.6.9.Final.jar 3.0M
hibernate-entitymanager-3.6.9.Final.jar 416.3K
hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.1.Final.jar 100.3K
hibernate-validator-4.2.0.Final.jar 358.0K
httpclient-4.1.2.jar 344.0K
httpcore-4.1.2.jar 177.0K
imgscalr-lib-4.2.jar 27.2K
jackson-core-asl-1.9.9.jar 226.7K
jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.9.jar 762.0K
java-xmlbuilder-0.4.jar 18.1K
javassist-3.12.0.GA.jar 618.5K
javassist-3.16.1-GA.jar 643.9K
javax.inject-1.jar 2.4K
jcl-over-slf4j-1.6.4.jar 16.9K
jets3t-0.9.0.jar 527.1K
jmimemagic-0.1.2.jar 44.5K
joda-time-2.1.jar 557.1K
jsr305-1.3.9.jar 32.2K
jstl-api-1.2.jar 29.8K
jstl-impl-1.2.jar 382.8K
jta-1.1.jar 14.7K
junit-dep-4.8.2.jar 213.2K
log4j-1.2.16.jar 470.2K
mail-1.4.3.jar 451.3K
mysema-commons-lang-0.2.4.jar 11.8K
mysql-connector-java-5.1.18.jar 771.4K
ognl-3.0.5.jar 222.5K
oro-2.0.8.jar 63.7K
prettytime-1.0.8.Final.jar 65.4K
querydsl-core-2.9.0.jar 367.3K
querydsl-jpa-2.9.0.jar 93.3K
slf4j-api-1.6.4.jar 25.4K
slf4j-log4j12-1.6.4.jar 9.5K
spring-aop-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar 327.0K
spring-aspects-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar 68.2K
spring-beans-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar 590.6K
spring-context-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar 834.0K
spring-context-support-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar 124.1K
spring-core-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar 842.8K
spring-data-commons-core-1.3.0.RELEASE.jar 215.0K
spring-data-jpa-1.1.0.RELEASE.jar 129.8K
spring-expression-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar 189.2K
spring-jdbc-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar 391.6K
spring-js-resources-2.2.1.RELEASE.jar 4.3M
spring-orm-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar 383.0K
spring-security-acl-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar 77.7K
spring-security-config-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar 198.9K
spring-security-core-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar 332.1K
spring-security-taglibs-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar 20.3K
spring-security-web-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar 245.2K
spring-social-core-1.0.2.RELEASE.jar 113.7K
spring-social-facebook-1.0.2.RELEASE.jar 117.2K
spring-social-web-1.0.2.RELEASE.jar 18.0K
spring-tx-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar 235.3K
spring-web-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar 609.7K
spring-webmvc-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar 621.0K
thymeleaf-2.0.14.jar 677.9K
thymeleaf-extras-tiles2-1.0.0-beta3-SNAPSHOT.jar 46.7K
thymeleaf-spring3-2.0.14.jar 161.9K
tiles-api-2.2.2.jar 35.1K
tiles-core-2.2.2.jar 157.2K
tiles-jsp-2.2.2.jar 49.6K
tiles-servlet-2.2.2.jar 58.3K
tiles-template-2.2.2.jar 23.9K
validation-api-1.0.0.GA.jar 46.3K
xercesImpl-2.7.1.jar 1.1M
xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar 106.8K
xmlParserAPIs-2.0.2.jar 76.6K
It seems a cloudfoundry jar library is missing from the above list. Can anyone please let me know which one that is?
Also, what I am getting wrong that could prevent spring profiles from working?

Answer 1

If you have a package (or pseudo package like /META-INF/cloud) in more than one location on your classpath (e.g. two jar files) then depending on the order the class loader decides to load them, they can hide each other. In particular this happens when using classpath:/... paths to load resources. You can sometimes use classpath*:/... but in this case that option may not be open. The cloudfoundry autoconfig jar contains /META-INF/cloud and it is being hidden by your app. The Spring framework runtime agent adds the classpath:/... path to your web.xml, so unless you want to add an explicit classpath*:/... the best thing you can do is move the stuff you have in /META-INF/cloud to a different location.