I am currently experiencing a ClassNotFoundException with a deployed EAR (with OpenFaces web project) on WebSphere 7.0 application server. The EAR deploys
I think your classpath is wrong.
Under WEB-INF/classes, check these folders >> org/openfaces/demo/services and then check the class MenuItem inside the last directory Services.
Regards,
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.