On a whim, I was looking around, and saw the server/default/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/META-INF/jboss-service.xml file. I edited that file and changed: <attribute name="FilteredPackages">javax.servlet,org.apache.commons.logging</attribute> to: <attribute name="FilteredPackages">javax.servlet,org</attribute> and restarted and it WORKED in the sense that I suddenly saw a ton of web app log messages. But what didn't work is that I now got class loader violations because it was trying to load commons logging twice. Not good. But this is progress. It tells me that I might be able to succeed by purging my application of any classes in org.apache.commons.logging and then changing that attribute. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4002146#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...