I know there are a lot of reasons for this error, but I am finding it immediately upon deployment before even any application logs get written:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No application context active
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.forName(Component.java:1799)
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1849)
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1844)
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1821)
        at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1816)
        at org.jboss.seam.core.ResourceLoader.instance(ResourceLoader.java:97)
        at org.jboss.seam.core.SeamResourceBundle.loadBundlesForCurrentLocale(SeamResourceBundle.java:58)
        at org.jboss.seam.core.SeamResourceBundle.getBundlesForCurrentLocale(SeamResourceBundle.java:48)
        at org.jboss.seam.core.SeamResourceBundle.handleGetObject(SeamResourceBundle.java:107)
        at java.util.ResourceBundle.getObject(ResourceBundle.java:319)
        at java.util.ResourceBundle.getString(ResourceBundle.java:285)
        at com.sun.faces.util.MessageFactory.getMessage(MessageFactory.java:151)
        at com.sun.faces.util.MessageFactory.getMessage(MessageFactory.java:122)
        at com.sun.faces.util.MessageUtils.getExceptionMessageString(MessageUtils.java:277)
        at com.sun.faces.util.Util.createInstance(Util.java:477)
        at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.configure(ConfigureListener.java:636)
        at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.configure(ConfigureListener.java:487)
        at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:381)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.EventsManager$FireContextListenerAction.run(EventsManager.java:376)
        at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
        at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:121)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.EventsManager.notifyContextCreatedEvent(EventsManager.java:82)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:1609)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.start(WebAppServletContext.java:2764)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:889)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:333)
        at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:204)
        at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:26)
        at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:60)
        at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ScopedModuleDriver.start(ScopedModuleDriver.java:200)
        at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:117)

This is a web application with components.xml in WEB-INF and seam.properties in WEB-INF/classes.  Any insight into what is causing this issue is very much appreciated.

Thanks.