ClassNotFoundException occurs when application is undeployed or at shutdown even though the class exists in JBoss EAP 5

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  • ClassNotFoundException occurs when application is undeployed or at shutdown even though the class exists in JBoss EAP 5
ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/examplewar]] (RMI TCP Connection(2287817)-127.0.0.1:) Servlet AxisServlet threw unload() exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet.destroy() for servlet AxisServlet threw exception
  at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.unload(StandardWrapper.java:1269)
  at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.stop(StandardWrapper.java:1568)
  at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.stop(StandardContext.java:4564)
  at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.destroy(ContainerBase.java:1175)
  at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.destroy(StandardContext.java:4668)
...
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/axis2/context/ConfigurationContext$2
  at org.apache.axis2.context.ConfigurationContext.deleteTempFiles(ConfigurationContext.java:772)
  at org.apache.axis2.context.ConfigurationContext.cleanupTemp(ConfigurationContext.java:768)
  at org.apache.axis2.context.ConfigurationContext.terminate(ConfigurationContext.java:747)
  at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet.destroy(AxisServlet.java:465)
  at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.unload(StandardWrapper.java:1250)
  ... 108 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.axis2.context.ConfigurationContext$2 from BaseClassLoader@3cad30a2{vfszip:/home/jboss/jboss-eap-5.1/jboss-as/server/all/deploy/example.ear/examplewar.war/}
  at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.loadClass(BaseClassLoader.java:477)
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
  ... 113 more

Environment

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5.x

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