Use of custom autheniticators disabled due to - ClassNotFoundException: org.picketlink.identity.federation.bindings.tomcat.PicketLinkAuthenticator

Within the default EAP configuration the following JBoss Web authenticator is defined: -

<entry>
<key>SECURITY_DOMAIN</key>
<value>org.picketlink.identity.federation.bindings.tomcat.PicketLinkAuthenticator</value>
</entry>

During the initialisation of JBoss Web all defined authentictors are loaded, should this fail then the entire list of defined authenticators is dropped and the defaults used instead.

The side effect of this is that if any custom authenticator is added for a different purpose this default but missing authenticator causes the correct authenticators to be dropped.