Hi I'm at big financial institute and we've an application running on Websphere 6.1. on Solaris. Due to MQ Connectivity we had to install fixpack 6.1.0.23. Unfortunately this broke an ejb (1.1) which is still there as legacy (Test missed it).

[3/23/10 11:33:18:703 CET] 00000055 EJBContainerI E   WSVR0068E: Attempt to start EnterpriseBean EventRisk_1.0.0#EventRiskEJB.jar#PolicyDataManager failed with exception: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.ibm.ejs.csi.ResRefListImpl.(Lorg/eclipse/jst/j2ee/ejb/EnterpriseBean;Lcom/ibm/ejs/models/base/bindings/ejbbnd/EnterpriseBeanBinding;Lcom/ibm/ejs/models/base/extensions/ejbext/EnterpriseBeanExtension;)V
        at com.ibm.ws.metadata.ejb.EJBMDOrchestrator.finishBMDInit(EJBMDOrchestrator.java:1364)
        at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.EJBContainerImpl.finishDeferredBeanMetaData(EJBContainerImpl.java:4829)
        at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.EJBContainerImpl$3.run(EJBContainerImpl.java:4631)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at com.ibm.ws.security.util.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:125)
        at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.EJBContainerImpl.initializeDeferredEJB(EJBContainerImpl.java:4627)
        at com.ibm.ejs.container.HomeOfHomes.getHome(HomeOfHomes.java:390)
        at com.ibm.ejs.container.HomeOfHomes.internalCreateWrapper(HomeOfHomes.java:938)
        at com.ibm.ejs.container.EJSContainer.createWrapper(EJSContainer.java:4783)
        at com.ibm.ejs.container.WrapperManager.faultOnKey(WrapperManager.java:545)
        at com.ibm.ejs.util.cache.Cache.findAndFault(Cache.java:498)
        at com.ibm.ejs.container.WrapperManager.keyToObject(WrapperManager.java:489)

We cannot reproduce the issue on our desktop boxes (it all works fine there) and we do not have direct access to our the Solaris machines (dependent on the deployment department) we do suspect a discrepancy on the jvm but we're not sure.

My question is two fold:

1. can you confirm IBM's statement that fixpack 6.1.0.23 for solaris indeed runs on jvm 1.5.0_17b04 our installation tells us ./java -version java version "1.5.0_13" But deploy department is not eager to investigate.
2. Do you see some other solution, apart from hiring big blue's con$ultancy?

kind regards,
Jeroen.