I have a web.xml in which I intend to replace a property placeholder with a value from pom.xml. But after reading stack overflow's How to replace a value in web.xml with a Maven property? question I implemented the it in the following way.
Now my web.xml looks like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<context-param>
<param-name>spring.profiles.active</param-name>
<param-value>${spring.profiles.to.active}</param-value>
</context-param>
...
...
</web-app>
And my pom.xml's build part looks like this
<build>
<finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
<configuration>
<filteringDeploymentDescriptors>true</filteringDeploymentDescriptors>
<webResources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/webapp</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<includes>
<include>**/web.xml</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</webResources>
<warSourceDirectory>src/main/webapp</warSourceDirectory>
<webXml>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
After all these changes when I run the application using mvn package, its performing what it intends to do, i.e. its actually replacing the placeholder with the intended value and the updated web.xml is present in the target directory.
So now my new web.xml looks like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<context-param>
<param-name>spring.profiles.active</param-name>
<param-value>development</param-value>
</context-param>
...
...
</web-app>
But now the interesting part comes. When I am going to deploy it in either tomcat or in Pivotal Tc server, its giving me this weird error
INFO : org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader - Loading XML bean definitions from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml]
INFO : org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in 511 ms
INFO : org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - FrameworkServlet 'appServlet': initialization started
ERROR: org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Context initialization failed
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'spring.profiles.to.active' in string value "${spring.profiles.to.active}"
at org.springframework.util.PropertyPlaceholderHelper.parseStringValue(PropertyPlaceholderHelper.java:174)
at org.springframework.util.PropertyPlaceholderHelper.replacePlaceholders(PropertyPlaceholderHelper.java:126)
at org.springframework.core.env.AbstractPropertyResolver.doResolvePlaceholders(AbstractPropertyResolver.java:194)
at org.springframework.core.env.AbstractPropertyResolver.resolveRequiredPlaceholders(AbstractPropertyResolver.java:158)
at org.springframework.core.env.AbstractPropertyResolver.resolveNestedPlaceholders(AbstractPropertyResolver.java:185)
at org.springframework.core.env.PropertySourcesPropertyResolver.getProperty(PropertySourcesPropertyResolver.java:87)
at org.springframework.core.env.PropertySourcesPropertyResolver.getProperty(PropertySourcesPropertyResolver.java:60)
at org.springframework.core.env.AbstractEnvironment.getProperty(AbstractEnvironment.java:465)
at org.springframework.core.env.AbstractEnvironment.doGetActiveProfiles(AbstractEnvironment.java:241)
at org.springframework.core.env.AbstractEnvironment.getActiveProfiles(AbstractEnvironment.java:228)
at org.springframework.core.env.AbstractEnvironment.merge(AbstractEnvironment.java:442)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.setParent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:402)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:621)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:672)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:543)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:484)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:136)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1231)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1144)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1031)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4997)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5289)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.reload(StandardContext.java:3831)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappLoader.backgroundProcess(WebappLoader.java:292)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.backgroundProcess(StandardContext.java:5616)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1377)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1381)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1381)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1349)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Has anyone faced this issue? Or Does anyone have the solution for this problem?
