Scott,
Yesterday, while adding the FITC Demo I was able to verify that there is some cloberring happening within the shared Spring beans, meaning that when one war loads it will overwrite the beans that share the same name and that were previously instantiated by the Spring context loader. I'll ry to fix this sometime soon. In the meantime I've also added the latest ear to the blog page. Keep in mind that, because of this clobering, having multiple war being deployed through the ear might not work.