spring-boot: Problem with tomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory, HibernateValidator and EntityScan

We have a webservice and noticed 2 things after upgrading to 1.4.0.RELEASE. It seems that EntityScan works different in 1.4.0.M2 and 1.4.0.RELEASE. One reason might be the downgrade of hibernate-entitymanager 5.1.0 -> 5.0.9.

I don’t know if its a bug or a failure of myself. Starting my spring boot webservice over eclipse launchConfiguration behaves different to commandline.

1.4.0.M2

spring-boot-starter-web:1.4.0.M2
    -> hibernate-validator:5.2.4.Final
sorubg-boot-starter-data-jpa:1.4.0.M2
    -> hibernate-entitymanager:5.1.0.Final

1.4.0.RELEASE

spring-boot-starter-web:1.4.0.RELEASE
    -> hibernate-validator:5.2.4.Final
sorubg-boot-starter-data-jpa:1.4.0.RELEASE
    -> hibernate-entitymanager:5.0.9.Final

I am using Windows 10 and JDk 1.8.0_120

I am starting my webservice jar as following:

"c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_102\bin\java.exe" -jar -Dport=11000 -DLOG_PATH=local_log_%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log -Dpwfile="J:\pwd" -Dspring.profiles.active=local -DLOG_FORMAT=JSON ws-order-1.0.21-SNAPSHOT.jar

The same code with different entityscan annotation results in different results (works/failure) when starting over commandline.

Spring Boot Version	EntityScan	Result
1.4.0.RELEASE	org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.domain.EntityScan	failure
1.4.0.RELEASE	org.springframework.boot.orm.jpa.EntityScan	failure
1.4.0.M2	org.springframework.boot.orm.jpa.EntityScan	works

The strange thing is, that all combination work if i start my webservice over eclipse launchConfiguration

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<launchConfiguration type="org.springframework.ide.eclipse.boot.launch">
<stringAttribute key="org.eclipse.debug.core.source_locator_id" value="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.sourceLocator.JavaSourceLookupDirector"/>
<booleanAttribute key="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.ATTR_USE_START_ON_FIRST_THREAD" value="true"/>
<stringAttribute key="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.MAIN_TYPE" value="com.company.webservice.order.WebserviceApp"/>
<stringAttribute key="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.PROJECT_ATTR" value="ws-order"/>
<stringAttribute key="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.SOURCE_PATH_PROVIDER" value="org.springframework.ide.eclipse.boot.launch.BootMavenSourcePathProvider"/>
<stringAttribute key="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.VM_ARGUMENTS" value="-Dpwfile=&quot;J:\encryption\pwd&quot;&#13;&#10;-Dspring.profiles.active=local&#13;&#10;-DLOG_PATH=log_%d{yyyy_MM_dd}.log&#13;&#10;-DLOG_FORMAT=JSON"/>
<booleanAttribute key="spring.boot.ansi.console" value="true"/>
<booleanAttribute key="spring.boot.dash.hidden" value="false"/>
<booleanAttribute key="spring.boot.debug.enable" value="false"/>
<booleanAttribute key="spring.boot.lifecycle.enable" value="true"/>
<stringAttribute key="spring.boot.lifecycle.termination.timeout" value="15000"/>
<booleanAttribute key="spring.boot.livebean.enable" value="true"/>
<stringAttribute key="spring.boot.livebean.port" value="30543"/>
<stringAttribute key="spring.boot.profile" value=""/>
</launchConfiguration>

Questions:

• Any idea why starting over launchConfiguration works and over commandline does not ?
• Is there a reason for the downgrade of hibernate-entitymanager from M2 to RELEASE ?

Thank you in advance

error-log:

org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Unable to start embedded container; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'tomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/EmbeddedServletContainerAutoConfiguration$EmbeddedTomcat.class]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'serverProperties' defined in class path resource 
[org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/ServerPropertiesAutoConfiguration.class]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ConfigurationImpl
        at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.onRefresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:137)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:535)
        at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.refresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:122)
        at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:759)
        at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:369)
        at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:313)
        at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1185)
        at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1174)
        at com.company.webservice.order.WebserviceApp.main(WebserviceApp.java:23)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
        at org.springframework.boot.loader.MainMethodRunner.run(MainMethodRunner.java:48)
        at org.springframework.boot.loader.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:87)
        at org.springframework.boot.loader.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:50)
        at org.springframework.boot.loader.JarLauncher.main(JarLauncher.java:58)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'tomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/EmbeddedServletContainerAutoConfiguration$EmbeddedTomcat.class]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'serverProperties' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/ServerPropertiesAutoConfiguration.class]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ConfigurationImpl
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:553)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:482)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:306)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:202)
        at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.getEmbeddedServletContainerFactory(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:199)
        at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.createEmbeddedServletContainer(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:162)
        at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.onRefresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:134)
        ... 16 common frames omitted
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'serverProperties' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/ServerPropertiesAutoConfiguration.class]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ConfigurationImpl
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:553)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:482)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:306)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:202)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeansOfType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:536)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBeansOfType(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1192)
        at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizerBeanPostProcessor.getCustomizers(EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizerBeanPostProcessor.java:77)
        at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizerBeanPostProcessor.postProcessBeforeInitialization(EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizerBeanPostProcessor.java:67)
        at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizerBeanPostProcessor.postProcessBeforeInitialization(EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizerBeanPostProcessor.java:54)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsBeforeInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:408)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1570)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:545)
        ... 24 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ConfigurationImpl
        at org.hibernate.validator.HibernateValidator.createGenericConfiguration(HibernateValidator.java:31)
        at javax.validation.Validation$GenericBootstrapImpl.configure(Validation.java:276)
        at org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalValidatorFactoryBean.java:248)
        at org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationPropertiesBindingPostProcessor$LocalValidatorFactory.run(ConfigurationPropertiesBindingPostProcessor.java:452)
        at org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationPropertiesBindingPostProcessor.getValidator(ConfigurationPropertiesBindingPostProcessor.java:386)
        at org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationPropertiesBindingPostProcessor.determineValidator(ConfigurationPropertiesBindingPostProcessor.java:369)
        at org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationPropertiesBindingPostProcessor.postProcessBeforeInitialization(ConfigurationPropertiesBindingPostProcessor.java:331)
        at org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationPropertiesBindingPostProcessor.postProcessBeforeInitialization(ConfigurationPropertiesBindingPostProcessor.java:302)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsBeforeInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:408)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1570)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:545)
        ... 37 common frames omitted