RE: NoSuchMethodError in MapUtils.getBooleanValue

Nice.  Thanks for the info.  I don’t recall seeing a CHILD_FIRST option for the web apps classloader, but I’ll look again.  I think that’s what the custom classloader is for.  You have to specify a loading policy when you create one.  Maybe it’s there.  Any other JARs I should consider including my custom classloader?  All of them?  J

In general switching webapp's classloader to CHILD_FIRST should solve these issues. I'm not really sure there's any guide. But given that IBM produced a 20 page document for resolving commons-logging classloader issues in WAS, the effort seems daunting ;)

Andrew