I have been trying to fix/find info on this error for a very long time with no luck. I even posted here already with no replies... thought maybe titled better I might have more luck.

If anybody has any GUESSES or ANYTHING, please please help.

I have been given a war file from a co-worker. She developed the code for ADF server faces on JBoss 4.0, and on that server version it works.

However... there is some kind of conflict between the server faces support native to JBoss 4.2 GA and my war file. I get this error on deploy:

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Exception thrown by attributes event listener
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationAssociate
 at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationAssociate.getInstance(ApplicationAssociate.java:180)
 at com.sun.faces.application.WebappLifecycleListener.getAssociate(WebappLifecycleListener.java:289)
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