Classpath scanning ZipException or NoSuchBeanDefinitionException using Spring and JBoss EAP

Issue

• Using Spring to deploy component results in a java.util.zip.ZipException.  For example:

    ERROR org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Context initialization failed
        org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: I/O failure during classpath scanning; nested exception is java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
            at org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider.findCandidateComponents(ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider.java:222)

or other ZipFile I/O errors such as:

    Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\jboss-eap-5.0\jboss-as\server\default\deploy\ozone.war\WEB-INF\lib\spring-beans-2.5.6.jar\META-INF (The system cannot find the path specified)
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:114)
        at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:133)
        at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:70)

• If you define the following in the web.xml file and you define your spring beans in the file(s) specified by the "classpath":

        <context-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>classpath:/properties/contexts/*.xml</param-value>
        </context-param>

         you  receive the following error:

    org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'xxxxxxxx' is defined

• Why this issue does not occur in EAP 4.3 ?