Let's see...
The original problem was with a Filter, which was started at deployment.
Then to my opinion this is due to Filter initialization (not run-time usage) as implemented in Tomcat.
That was my first thought when you brought up the question about the moment of the CNFE happening but I tried with classes needed at runtime (Velocity classes, for example) and could not find those either. Using my code or your servlet.
Stop, now I've messed up. :-) Your code can not find some jars in question, but mine does??
No. Your code does not find things if I put in my application.
But it does find classes in jars in shared/lib within a test (almost empty) application living in CATALINA_HOME/webapps.
I know it does not seem important but I have no other clues by now.
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