> This works fine for me. It is very obvious: just try one
> example Struts
> WAR (which has commons-digester.jar), and it will work fine.

I'm not sure why this would work, but I admittedly don't know much about WAR
files. Could have something to do with when they are processed during
startup, etc?

The problem I'm experiencing isn't imaginary, though. See these URL's:
http://www.mail-archive.com/tomcat-dev@(protected)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=c09cb3fc.0307290659.57359042%40posting.
google.com
http://www.mail-archive.com/commons-user@(protected)

See the Bugzilla entry for specifics:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22300

Matt