title: How Does WebSphere Choose the Classloading Order in a Folder (WEB-INF/lib)
body: <p>I am currently facing an interesting problem where our application fails to start up on 3/4 nodes due to classloading issues.</p>
  
  <p>The problem seems to be that WAS is loading b.jar before a.jar. After troubleshooting more, I found that all of the nodes load the jars in different orders (via Classpath viewer in console) and the working node may have just been a fluke.</p>
  
  <p>How does WebSphere determine the classloading order within an installed applications WEB-INF/lib folder? </p>