I had some trouble recently upgrading to shale 1.03 on websphere portal 5.1. shale 1.02 works okay, but I get a very non-descriptive error message 'web application failed to start' using 1.0.3. Nothing in the portal logs seems to indicate why. I have seen this problem before with websphere and it usually has indicated that a dependancy on a listener, filter, or servlet could not be found or somehow did not play along with websphere's server level third party jars. It seems to be the latter in this case since I can run the same application using shale 1.0.3 fine in tomcat.
Does anyone know of any new dependancy versions introducted since 1.0.2? Maybe specifically to things which would get loaded when the application starts? I am using just the shale-core and shale-clay libraries which happened to be sufficient enough for 1.0.2. Thanks, Ryan
