Web application not picking up default Spring profile settings from context param

[Paul Newport]

Hi

I have a webflow based application that is using Spring profiles for configuration. My understanding is that I can set a default profile by adding this to web.xml

<context-param>
  	<param-name>spring.profiles.default</param-name>
  	<param-value>development,test</param-value>
</context-param>

This doesn't work. Looking at the debug I can see that the context params are not being interrogated as a property source:

DEBUG: org.springframework.core.env.PropertySourcesPropertyResolver - Searching for key 'spring.profiles.default' in [systemEnvironment]
DEBUG: org.springframework.core.env.PropertySourcesPropertyResolver - Could not find key 'spring.profiles.default' in any property source. Returning [null]

My app works perfectly if I set the spring.profiles.default as a JVM param, but this defies the point of having a default (it's not really a default if you have to pass it in...).

Strangely I see that the class DefaultWebEnvironment that I thought was controlling this has been removed in Spring 3.1.1 (it was present in 3.1.0). Does anyone know what's going on here ?

Javadoc for DefaultWebEnvironment:


http://static.springsource.org/sprin...vironment.html

By the way, it seems that, for whatever reason, my web app is initialising a new StandardEnvironment "implementation suitable for use in 'standard' (i.e. non-web)" rather than whatever now replaces the DefaultWebEnvironment.

[Paul Newport]

More info. THis is possibly due to the fact that the beans initialising are in a parent context:

    <context-param>
		<param-name>locatorFactorySelector</param-name>
		<param-value>classpath:META-INF/spring/beanRefContext.xml</param-value>
	</context-param>
	<context-param>
		<param-name>parentContextKey</param-name>
		<param-value>ear.context</param-value>
	</context-param>

[Marten Deinum]

It depends for WHAT you want to set the properties. For the ContextLoaderListener you need to set the context-param, for the DispatcherServlet you need to set the init-param of the servlet.

Also as you already stated you use the BeanFactoryLocater which doesn't know anything of a web context so you need to specify it as a environment variable. It might be that it works as a JNDI attribute.

[Paul Newport]

It depends for WHAT you want to set the properties. For the ContextLoaderListener you need to set the context-param, for the DispatcherServlet you need to set the init-param of the servlet.

Also as you already stated you use the BeanFactoryLocater which doesn't know anything of a web context so you need to specify it as a environment variable. It might be that it works as a JNDI attribute.

Thanks Marten.