Externalizing properties for Spring Boot - eclipse

Question

I know there are quite a few threads on this, but none have solved my issue yet. I have a Spring Boot app that was running in Eclipse and I externalized the parameters in order to deploy to an external Tomcat and keep the properties out of the war. I moved my application.properties out of src/main/resources and into APP_ROOT/config. In catalina.sh, I added this:
JAVA_OPTS="-Dspring.profiles.active=local -Dspring.config.location=$CATALINA_BASE/conf/"
The external build is working fine; however, now it is not starting in Eclipse any longer. I replicated what I did in Tomcat by adding spring.config.location and spring.profiles.active to the VM arguments in the Launch Configuration.
During bootstrapping, it registers an Oracle driver (not the same version I specify in my properties file) and then stops. If I add:
#EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude={DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class})
to my config class so that driver isn't auto-registered, then I get:
No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate]
The odd part is that I tried putting my application.properties back in src/main/resources and removing the VM arguments and I'm getting the same behaviors. This is what I am seeing on startup without excluding the DataSourceAutoConfiguration. Any ideas?
2016-09-30 11:44:59.661 INFO 5150 --- [ main] org.usp.mct.MctApplication : Starting MctApplication on cici-mac.local with PID 5150 (/Users/cici/Documents/workspace-sts-3.7.3.RELEASE/mct.usp.org/target/classes started by cici in /Users/cici/Documents/workspace-sts-3.7.3.RELEASE/mct.usp.org)
2016-09-30 11:44:59.663 INFO 5150 --- [ main] org.usp.mct.MctApplication : The following profiles are active: local
2016-09-30 11:44:59.713 INFO 5150 --- [ main] s.c.a.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext : Refreshing org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext#550ee7e5: startup date [Fri Sep 30 11:44:59 EDT 2016]; root of context hierarchy
2016-09-30 11:45:01.005 INFO 5150 --- [ main] j.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean : Building JPA container EntityManagerFactory for persistence unit 'default'
2016-09-30 11:45:01.019 INFO 5150 --- [ main] o.hibernate.jpa.internal.util.LogHelper : HHH000204: Processing PersistenceUnitInfo [
name: default
...]
2016-09-30 11:45:01.088 INFO 5150 --- [ main] org.hibernate.Version : HHH000412: Hibernate Core {5.0.9.Final}
2016-09-30 11:45:01.089 INFO 5150 --- [ main] org.hibernate.cfg.Environment : HHH000206: hibernate.properties not found
2016-09-30 11:45:01.091 INFO 5150 --- [ main] org.hibernate.cfg.Environment : HHH000021: Bytecode provider name : javassist
2016-09-30 11:45:01.127 INFO 5150 --- [ main] o.hibernate.annotations.common.Version : HCANN000001: Hibernate Commons Annotations {5.0.1.Final}
2016-09-30 11:45:01.598 INFO 5150 --- [ main] org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect : HHH000400: Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle12cDialect
2016-09-30 11:45:01.749 INFO 5150 --- [ main] org.hibernate.type.BasicTypeRegistry : HHH000270: Type registration [byte[]] overrides previous : org.hibernate.type.BinaryType#70972170
2016-09-30 11:45:01.749 INFO 5150 --- [ main] org.hibernate.type.BasicTypeRegistry : HHH000270: Type registration [[B] overrides previous : org.hibernate.type.BinaryType#70972170
2016-09-30 11:45:01.750 INFO 5150 --- [ main] org.hibernate.type.BasicTypeRegistry : HHH000270: Type registration [Byte[]] overrides previous : org.hibernate.type.WrapperBinaryType#69fe0ed4
2016-09-30 11:45:01.750 INFO 5150 --- [ main] org.hibernate.type.BasicTypeRegistry : HHH000270: Type registration [[Ljava.lang.Byte;] overrides previous : org.hibernate.type.WrapperBinaryType#69fe0ed4
2016-09-30 11:45:02.181 INFO 5150 --- [ main] j.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean : Initialized JPA EntityManagerFactory for persistence unit 'default'
2016-09-30 11:45:02.984 INFO 5150 --- [ main] o.s.j.e.a.AnnotationMBeanExporter : Registering beans for JMX exposure on startup
2016-09-30 11:45:02.992 INFO 5150 --- [ main] o.s.c.support.DefaultLifecycleProcessor : Starting beans in phase 0
2016-09-30 11:45:03.059 INFO 5150 --- [ main] org.usp.mct.MctApplication : Started MctApplication in 3.796 seconds (JVM running for 4.181)
2016-09-30 11:45:03.060 INFO 5150 --- [ Thread-3] s.c.a.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext : Closing org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext#550ee7e5: startup date [Fri Sep 30 11:44:59 EDT 2016]; root of context hierarchy
2016-09-30 11:45:03.061 INFO 5150 --- [ Thread-3] o.s.c.support.DefaultLifecycleProcessor : Stopping beans in phase 0
2016-09-30 11:45:03.063 INFO 5150 --- [ Thread-3] o.s.j.e.a.AnnotationMBeanExporter : Unregistering JMX-exposed beans on shutdown

Answer 1

In this case, I blew away my repo and then re-cloned. Still have to get it working with external parameters instead of src/main/resources/application.properties, but at least I am back to square one.