Okay, I figured it out. The problem was actually, a tomcat configuration issue.
I had configured a specific context for my web application in tomcat so that it could be the default web app. That meant that in my server.xml the Host element needed deployOnStartup="false" and autoDeploy="false" Otherwise, the context definition caused the web app to be deployed, and then the host policy caused it to be deployed a second time. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/host.html provided some background that pointed me in the right direction. Regards, Eric Meyer
