MORTALLY embarrassed and deeply apologetic for wasting people's time. The issue was one duplicate jar file at the top level of the ear and inside the lib directory. I could argue that such a mistake should be handled more gracefully, but mainly what I feel is dumb. Please close the bug out and move along.
Best,
Laird
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