Jetty não esta lendo os arquivos "resource" do meu ClassPath

Bom dia!

Estou iniciando meu trabalho com o “container” Jetty e naturalmente surgem algumas dúvidas e problemas.

Gostaria de saber se tenho que configurar algo no arquivo .XML que o Jetty utiliza para subir uma aplicação, pois ele não esta lendo alguns arquivos “resources” que estão sendo direcionados para a pasta sicp/WebContent/WEB-INF/classes; um exemplo é o arquivo messages.properties (i18n), que não esta sendo utilizado quando a minha aplicação entre em funcionamento pelo Jetty.

Meu arquivo sicp.xml esta localizado em /etc/jetty-6.1.22/contexts e seu conteúdo é:

    <?xml version="1.0"  encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>  
    <!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Mort Bay Consulting//DTD Configure//EN" "http://jetty.mortbay.org/configure.dtd">  
      
    <Configure class="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">  
      <Set name="configurationClasses">  
        <Array type="java.lang.String">  
          <Item>org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebInfConfiguration</Item>  
          <Item>org.mortbay.jetty.plus.webapp.EnvConfiguration</Item>  
          <Item>org.mortbay.jetty.plus.webapp.Configuration</Item>  
         <Item>org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.JettyWebXmlConfiguration</Item>  
         <Item>org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.TagLibConfiguration</Item>  
       </Array>  
     </Set>  
     
     <Set name="contextPath">/sicp</Set>  
     <Set name="war"><SystemProperty name="jetty.home" default="."/>/webapps/sicp</Set>  
     <Set name="extractWAR">true</Set>  
     <Set name="copyWebDir">false</Set>  
   </Configure>  

Meu arquivo web.xml esta assim:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>  
    <web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"  
        xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"  
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">  
        <display-name>vraptor2</display-name>  
      
        <!-- CONTEXT Configuration -->  
        <context-param>  
           <param-name>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.localizationContext</param-name>  
           <param-value>pt_BR</param-value>  
           <param-value>messages</param-value>  
       </context-param>  
     
       <!-- VRAPTOR Configuration -->  
       <servlet>  
           <servlet-name>vraptor2</servlet-name>  
           <servlet-class>org.vraptor.VRaptorServlet</servlet-class>  
           <load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>  
       </servlet>  
       <servlet-mapping>  
           <servlet-name>vraptor2</servlet-name>  
           <url-pattern>*.logic</url-pattern>  
       </servlet-mapping>  
        
       <context-param>    
           <description>VRaptor handles HTTP requests in ISO-8859-1 format</description>    
           <param-name>br.com.caelum.vraptor.encoding</param-name>    
           <param-value>ISO-8859-1</param-value>    
       </context-param>    
     
       <!-- DRW Configuration -->  
       <servlet>  
           <servlet-name>dwr-invoker</servlet-name>  
           <servlet-class>org.directwebremoting.servlet.DwrServlet</servlet-class>  
           <init-param>  
               <param-name>config</param-name>  
               <param-value>WEB-INF/classes/dwr.xml</param-value>  
           </init-param>  
           <init-param>  
               <param-name>debug</param-name>  
               <param-value>false</param-value>  
           </init-param>  
           <init-param>  
               <param-name>crossDomainSessionSecurity</param-name>  
               <param-value>false</param-value>  
           </init-param>  
       </servlet>  
         
       <servlet-mapping>  
           <servlet-name>dwr-invoker</servlet-name>  
           <url-pattern>/dwr/*</url-pattern>  
       </servlet-mapping>  
         
       <filter>  
           <filter-name>DwrDaoFactoryFilter</filter-name>  
           <filter-class>  
               br.com.faespsenar.sicp.servlet.DwrDaoFactoryFilter  
           </filter-class>  
       </filter>  
         
       <filter-mapping>  
           <filter-name>DwrDaoFactoryFilter</filter-name>  
           <url-pattern>/dwr/*</url-pattern>  
       </filter-mapping>  
         
       <!-- STARTUP Configuration -->  
       <servlet>  
           <servlet-name>StartUp</servlet-name>  
           <servlet-class>br.com.faespsenar.sicp.servlet.StartUp</servlet-class>  
           <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>  
       </servlet>  
       <servlet-mapping>  
           <servlet-name>StartUp</servlet-name>  
           <url-pattern>/startUp</url-pattern>  
       </servlet-mapping>  
     
       <!-- JSP Configuration -->  
       <jsp-config>  
           <jsp-property-group>  
               <display-name>todos os jsps</display-name>  
               <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>  
               <include-prelude>/WEB-INF/jsp/header.jspf</include-prelude>  
               <include-coda>/WEB-INF/jsp/footer.jspf</include-coda>  
           </jsp-property-group>  
       </jsp-config>  
     
       <!-- SESSION Configuration -->  
       <session-config>  
           <session-timeout>60</session-timeout> <!-- 30 minutes -->  
       </session-config>  
   </web-app>  

Meu classpath:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>  
    <classpath>  
        <classpathentry kind="src" path="src"/>  
        <classpathentry kind="src" path="resources"/>  
        <classpathentry kind="src" path="jasperFiles"/>  
        <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.web.container"/>  
        <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>  
        <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jst.server.core.container/org.mortbay.jetty.serveradaptor.runtimeClasspathProvider/Jetty 6"/>  
        <classpathentry kind="output" path="WebContent/WEB-INF/classes"/>  
   </classpath>  

Qualquer orientação ou dica será muito bem vinda!

Obrigado a todos.