Alfresco webscript scala controller not being executed - scala

Question

I am experimenting with writing a scala webscript controller in alfresco and I have the following maven dependencies:
<!--scala dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
<artifactId>scala-compiler</artifactId>
<version>LATEST</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
<artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
<version>LATEST</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.typesafe.scala-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>scala-logging-slf4j_2.11</artifactId>
<version>2.1.2</version>
</dependency>
And the following profile (enabled)
<!--Scala profile-->
<profile>
<id>include-scala</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.scala-tools</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-scala-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.14.3</version>
<configuration>
<charset>UTF-8</charset>
<jvmArgs>
<jvmArg>-Xmx1024m</jvmArg>
</jvmArgs>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>compile</id>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
</goals>
<phase>compile</phase>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>test-compile</id>
<goals>
<goal>testCompile</goal>
</goals>
<phase>test-compile</phase>
</execution>
<execution>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
The controller:
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory
import com.typesafe.scalalogging.slf4j.Logger
import dk.openesdh.repo.services.cases.CaseService
import dk.openesdh.repo.services.documents.DocumentService
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.{InvalidNodeRefException, NodeRef}
import org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.{Cache, DeclarativeWebScript, Status, WebScriptRequest}
class DocumentCaseContainers(val caseService: CaseService, val documentService:DocumentService) extends DeclarativeWebScript{
protected override def executeImpl(req: WebScriptRequest, status: Status, cache: Cache) : java.util.Map[String, Object] = {
val templateArgs = req.getServiceMatch.getTemplateVars
val logger = Logger(LoggerFactory.getLogger(classOf[DocumentCaseContainers]))
try {
val storeType: String = templateArgs.get ("store_type")
val storeId: String = templateArgs.get ("store_id")
val id: String = templateArgs.get ("id")
val docNodeRefStr = s"$storeType://$storeId/$id"
val documentNode: NodeRef = new NodeRef (docNodeRefStr)
val caseNodeRef = documentService.getCaseNodeRef(documentNode)
val caseDocumentNodeRef = caseService.getDocumentsFolder(caseNodeRef)
val model: Map[java.lang.String, java.lang.Object] = new HashMap[java.lang.String, java.lang.Object] ()
model.put("caseNodeRef", caseNodeRef)
model.put("caseDocumentNodeRef", caseDocumentNodeRef)
model
}
catch {
case inre: InvalidNodeRefException => {
logger.error(inre.getMessage)
null
}
}
}
}
The result is that I get null for the variables in the returned map and more so, the logger statement isn't printed in the logs.
I am currently using the maven 2.0 sdk beta-4 release and running this from within intelliJ IDEA.