2266031 - Explorer web application fails to start in Tomcat 8 after configuring for Windows AD SSO in BI 4.2

• Upon upgrading BI 4.1 to 4.2 SP1 and configuring the Explorer application for Windows AD SSO (using the Vintella filter) as we had in 4.1 SP5, the Explorer web application fails to start in Tomcat 8.
• After configuring the Explorer application for Windows AD SSO (using the Vintella filter) the Explorer web application fails to start in Tomcat 8.
  
  The exception is:
  SEVERE: Exception starting filter authFilter
  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The resource path [vsj.properties]is not valid
  at org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot.validate(StandardRoot.java:250)
  at org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot.getResource(StandardRoot.java:212)
  at org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot.getResource(StandardRoot.java:206)
  at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.getResourceAsStream(ApplicationContext.java:579)
  at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContextFacade.getResourceAsStream(ApplicationContextFacade.java:210)
  at com.wedgetail.idm.sso.AbstractAuthenticator.getResource(AbstractAuthenticator.java:2107)
  at com.wedgetail.idm.sso.AbstractAuthenticator.getPropsFromFile(AbstractAuthenticator.java:2069)
  at com.wedgetail.idm.sso.AuthFilter.init(AuthFilter.java:129)
  at com.businessobjects.sdk.credential.WrappedResponseAuthFilter.init(WrappedResponseAuthFilter.java:59)
  at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.initFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:279)
  at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:260)
  at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<(><<)>init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:105)
  at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:4573)
  at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5192)
  at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
  at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:725)
  at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:701)
  at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:717)
  at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1096)
  at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDirectory.run(HostConfig.java:1756)
  at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.null(UnknownSource)at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:812)
  
  Dec 23, 2015 4:54:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
  SEVERE: Error filterStart
  Dec 23, 2015 4:54:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
  SEVERE: Context [/explorerX] startup failed due to previous errors
  
  

SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.2
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer 4.2
Apache Tomcat 8 (Bundled)

KBA , BI-RA-EXP , Obsolete: Polestar, Explorer , BI-BIP-DEP , Webapp Deployment, Networking, Vulnerabilities, Webservices , Problem