Hello Jim,
I made some tests on 2.17.2, here some feedback:
issue 1: the app.schema.jar is indeed missed in the mongo plug-in
descriptor, I've produced a pr to fix it.
issue 2: I did not reproduce the issue while testing mongodb store creation
and layer publishing with v 2.17.2. The error you go
I have just downloaded and deployed Geoserver 2.17.2 and it was working fine,
then I tried to add mongodb extension by downloading it and extracting its jar
files (6 files) into web-inf/lib directory, after that geoserver failed to
deploy with exception "classNotFoundException
org.geotools.data
