How can I set spring profile on tomcat7-maven-plugin?

Question

How can I set active spring profile o tomcat maven plugin? I want to get active profiles in runtime from Environment, but I' always getting empty array.

I tried to add this systemProperties in plugin configuration in pom.xml:

<JAVA_OPTS>-Dspring.profiles.active=local</JAVA_OPTS>

or

<name>spring.profiles.active</name>
<value>locale</value>

I try to add this in context.xml:

<environment name="spring.profiles.active" value="local" type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>

But still getting no active profile...

My env: Java 6, tomcat7-maven-plugin version 2.2, Netbeans 8.0.2, Spring 3.1.1.RELEASE.

My pom.xml tomcat plugin looks this:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.2</version>

    <configuration>
        <!-- http port -->
        <port>8084</port>
        <contextFile>${basedir}/src/main/resources-local/context.xml</contextFile>
        <systemProperties>
            <JAVA_OPTS>-Dspring.profiles.active=local</JAVA_OPTS>
        </systemProperties>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>tomcat-run</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>run-war</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>package</phase>
        </execution>
    </executions>
<dependencies>

Answer 1

Tomcat 7 Documentation shows a different syntax for System Properties like the one below. So try doing it this way:

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<configuration>
  <systemProperties>
    <example.value.1>alpha</example.value.1>
    <example.value.2>beta</example.value.2>
  </systemProperties>
</configuration>
</plugin>