It may well simply be that. The detail is that with Weblogic, their scripts et al support the process. Drop in the service pack, and Weblogic "does the right thing".
If you place a Jar on the class path prefix, does that completely override a system jar? or only where the classes overlap? (This part of the jar class loaders has always been bit fuzzy to me.)
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