If I don't include int-vfs and int-deployers in the war/lib directory (but I do have them in the spring.deployers directory) I get the following exception | 15:16:26,116 INFO [TomcatDeployment] deploy, ctxPath=/common-mgt-fw-war, vfsUrl=common-mgt-fw.spring/common-mgt-fw.war | 15:16:27,701 INFO [[/common-mgt-fw-war]] Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext | 15:16:27,702 INFO [STDOUT] 25-Jun-2009 15:16:27 INFO [ContextLoader] - <Root WebApplicationContext: initialization started> | 15:16:27,804 INFO [STDOUT] 25-Jun-2009 15:16:27 ERROR [ContextLoader] - <Context initialization failed> | org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Custom context class [org.jboss.spring.factory.VFSXmlWebApplicationContext] is not of type [org.springframework.web.context.ConfigurableWebApplicationContext] | at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:245) | at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:199) | at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:45) | at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3910) | at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4393) | at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.TomcatDeployment.performDeployInternal(TomcatDeployment.java:367) | at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.TomcatDeployment.performDeploy(TomcatDeployment.java:146) | at org.jboss.web.deployers.AbstractWarDeployment.start(AbstractWarDeployment.java:460) | at org.jboss.web.deployers.WebModule.startModule(WebModule.java:118) | at org.jboss.web.deployers.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:96) | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:157) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:96) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) | at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264) | at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:668) | at org.jboss.system.microcontainer.ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceProxy.java:206) | at $Proxy36.start(Unknown Source) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4240071#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...