Why Tomcat ignores META-INF/context.xml when run from netbeans?

Question

I have following situation:

• I have a Maven war project in NetBeans 6.7
• I added Tomcat 6.0 as a server, which I use to run this project
• NetBeans itself creates context.xml file in META-INF directory, I added jdbc resources there, I am sure they are correct. The name is 'jdbc/defaultDS';
• I checked in the target directory, context.xml file is copied correctly.
• I use 'java:comp/env/jdbc/defaultDS' as JNDI location to access this data source.
• When I run this project on Tomcat (no resources in conf/context.xml) I get exception:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: 
Error creating bean with name 'dataSource': Invocation of init method failed; 
nested exception is 
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name jdbc is not bound in this Context

I have no clue as to what is happening, any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Most probably netbeans starts tomcat with it's own configuration, to have projects integrated directly from netbeans.

Answer 2

As always, it was my mistake.

I was using different maven profile than I thought. As a result, I was using 'jdbc/defaultDS' instead of 'java:comp/env/jdbc/defaultDS' to access the data source :/

Note to self: triple check your project before blaming the IDE.