Upgrade from 1.8.12 to 1.8.13 Breaks Deployment of War to WebSphere

[willweyant]

I am curious if anyone can point me to a solution for an issue we are facing after upgrading from 1.8.12 to 1.8.13. With no other changes, our application no longer deploys to WebSphere 9 with Java 8. Running as a Spring Boot application still works fine. The error that I see in the WebSphere logs indicates the following issues:

• The org.springframework.web.SpringServletContainerInitializer@ ServletContainerInitializer, located in the following application , produced the following error while invoking the onStartup method: java.servlet.ServletException: Failed to instantiate WebApplicationInitializer class
• Spring context lookup failed, skipping spring component provider initialization

As a result of Spring setup issues, FF4jApiApplicationJersey2x ApiConfig is null, causing a NullPointerException on line 74 of FF4jApiApplicationJersey2x.

Unfortunately, I can't post any code. We are using a combination of web.xml and annotation configuration.

Due to the minor version update, I wasn't expecting any issues. We are hoping to move to 1.9 to resolve some of the security issues.

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!