Velocity template works in dev mode, not in deployed

[Sytematic]

Hello, using smartgwt power 3.0

I have the following operationbinding, which works in dev mode, but not in deployed mode on Tomcat 6.

 <operationBinding operationType="fetch" requiresAuthentication="true" requiresRole="" operationId="ShopJsonWebserviceDataSourceImplDefaultFetchOperation" excludeCriteriaFields="lat,lng" customCriteriaFields="name,street,number,zipcode,city,phone,   description   , fileTitle, fileName   , tagName   , title, itemDescription, largeDescription, thumbImg, distance  , tagName   , fileTitle, fileName   , startDate, endDate   "> 
      <customSQL> 
   SELECT 
   
   Shop.Shop_id AS Shop_Shop_id, 
   Shop.name AS Shop_name,Shop.description AS Shop_description,Shop.street AS Shop_street,Shop.number AS Shop_number,Shop.zipcode AS Shop_zipcode,Shop.city AS Shop_city,Shop.country AS Shop_country,Shop.phone AS Shop_phone,Shop.email AS Shop_email,Shop.lat AS Shop_lat,Shop.lng AS Shop_lng,Shop.distance AS Shop_distance
   , Shop.Mall_id AS Shop_Mall_id
   
   

, mediaItems_MediaItem.MediaItem_id AS mediaItems_MediaItem_MediaItem_id 
, mediaItems_MediaItem.fileTitle AS mediaItems_MediaItem_fileTitle
, mediaItems_MediaItem.fileName AS mediaItems_MediaItem_fileName
, shopTags_ItemTag.ItemTag_id AS shopTags_ItemTag_ItemTag_id 
, shopTags_ItemTag.tagName AS shopTags_ItemTag_tagName
, items_Item.Item_id AS items_Item_Item_id 
, items_Item.title AS items_Item_title
, items_Item.itemDescription AS items_Item_itemDescription
, items_Item.largeDescription AS items_Item_largeDescription
, items_Item.thumbImg AS items_Item_thumbImg
 , items_Item.ItemType_id AS Item_ItemType_id, items_Item.Shop_id AS Item_Shop_id


, tags_ItemTag.ItemTag_id AS tags_ItemTag_ItemTag_id 
, tags_ItemTag.tagName AS tags_ItemTag_tagName
, media_MediaItem.MediaItem_id AS media_MediaItem_MediaItem_id 
, media_MediaItem.fileTitle AS media_MediaItem_fileTitle
, media_MediaItem.fileName AS media_MediaItem_fileName
, dates_ItemDate.ItemDate_id AS dates_ItemDate_ItemDate_id 
, dates_ItemDate.startDate AS dates_ItemDate_startDate
, dates_ItemDate.endDate AS dates_ItemDate_endDate
 , dates_ItemDate.Item_id AS ItemDate_Item_id
 , ((ACOS(SIN($criteria.lat * PI() / 180) * SIN(lat * PI() / 180) + COS($criteria.lat * PI() / 180) * COS(lat * PI() / 180) * COS(($criteria.lng - lng) * PI() / 180)) * 180 / PI()) * 60 * 1.1515 * 1.609344) AS Shop_distance

	FROM
    (
    SELECT
    	 Shop.Shop_id, Shop.name,Shop.description,Shop.street,Shop.number,Shop.zipcode,Shop.city,Shop.country,Shop.phone,Shop.email,Shop.lat,Shop.lng,Shop.distance
   		 , Shop.Mall_id
FROM Shop
 	
    LIMIT $dsRequest.getStartRow(), $dsRequest.getEndRow()
    ) 	AS Shop

    
    
LEFT OUTER JOIN
Shop_mediaItems_MediaItem ON Shop.Shop_id=Shop_mediaItems_MediaItem.Shop_id
LEFT OUTER JOIN
MediaItem mediaItems_MediaItem ON mediaItems_MediaItem.MediaItem_id = Shop_mediaItems_MediaItem.MediaItem_id

LEFT OUTER JOIN
Shop_shopTags_ItemTag ON Shop.Shop_id=Shop_shopTags_ItemTag.Shop_id
LEFT OUTER JOIN
ItemTag shopTags_ItemTag ON shopTags_ItemTag.ItemTag_id = Shop_shopTags_ItemTag.ItemTag_id

LEFT OUTER JOIN
Item items_Item ON Shop.Shop_id=items_Item.Shop_id

LEFT OUTER JOIN
Item_tags_ItemTag ON items_Item.Item_id=Item_tags_ItemTag.Item_id
LEFT OUTER JOIN
ItemTag tags_ItemTag ON tags_ItemTag.ItemTag_id = Item_tags_ItemTag.ItemTag_id

LEFT OUTER JOIN
Item_media_MediaItem ON items_Item.Item_id=Item_media_MediaItem.Item_id
LEFT OUTER JOIN
MediaItem media_MediaItem ON media_MediaItem.MediaItem_id = Item_media_MediaItem.MediaItem_id

INNER JOIN
ItemDate dates_ItemDate ON items_Item.Item_id=dates_ItemDate.Item_id
    WHERE ($defaultWhereClause)
    
 AND dates_ItemDate.startDate <= CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AND dates_ItemDate.endDate >= CURRENT_TIMESTAMP    
ORDER BY Shop_distance ASC
      </customSQL> 
    </operationBinding>

It's rather long, yes, and generated, too.

Anyway, it gets the closest shops and a whole bunch of other data. As criteria i pass in $criteria.lat and $criteria.lng (the geo coords of the user). These values are not resolved. Note that I used the excludeCriteriaFields bit in the operationbinding to prevent them from being included in the $defaultWhereClause. But again, on dev mode this resolves, on deployed mode it doesn't.

Other velocity stuff IS correctly resolved (like startRow et al).

Is this a bug, or is something wrong on my server?

[Isomorphic]

By now you probably know what's missing - we need the full server log for the failing request.