Hi Tim,
OK, I can now confirm that it takes 30 minutes after starting the JWS application that the subdirectory of the exploded jar files disappears from the disk, and the application then starts getting the oClassDefFoundErrors.
Over to you ...
Thanks,
Steve.
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