WebSphere ClassNotFoundException with deployed dynamic web project

Question

Problem

I am currently experiencing a ClassNotFoundException with a deployed EAR (with OpenFaces web project) on WebSphere 7.0 application server. The EAR deploys

Answer 1

Found the source of the problem. The commons-digester.jar needed to be in WEB-INF/lib so that it was able to find the MenuItem class since the EAR classpath doesn't have visibility to the web classpath.