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Worked it out, might possibly help some other folk down the line.

The %JBOSS_HOME%/server/default/deployers/ear-deployer-jboss-beans.xml file has the scope for the EAR set to isolated, this prevented the outside WAR from reaching the EAR/lib.

   <bean name="EARClassLoaderDeployer">
      <!-- A flag indicating if ear deployments should have their own scoped
         class loader to isolate their classes from other deployments.
      -->      
      <property name="isolated">false</property>
   </bean>

Depending on the development or production environment the WAR is outside or inside the EAR, so I didn't want to just move it to the server/default/lib.

Regards

Dan