Feb 17, 2011 Dev notes
Weblogic and thirdparties libraries
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils.join(Ljava/util/Collection;C)Ljava/lang/String;
Weblogic ignores thirdparties libraries in WEB-INF/lib by default.
To enable libraries in a web application, add following to the weblogic xml:
<prefer-web-inf-classes>true</prefer-web-inf-classes>