RichFAces + Myfaces

Srs, estou usando o RichFAces em um projeto que usa o myfaces, porem ao tentar subir a aplicação após fazer as referências de filtro do Richfaces aparece a exception abaixo.
alguem tem ideia do que pode causar este tipo de problema.

27/04/10 16:16:49:880 BRT] 0000001a StartupServle E org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener initFaces Error initializing ServletContext
javax.faces.FacesException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at javax.faces.FactoryFinder.newFactoryInstance(FactoryFinder.java:152)
at javax.faces.FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.java:101)
at org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator.configureRenderKits(FacesConfigurator.java:576)
at org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator.configure(FacesConfigurator.java:131)
at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener.initFaces(StartupServletContextListener.java:63)
at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener.contextInitialized(StartupServletContextListener.java:46)
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.webapp.WebApp.notifyServletContextCreated(WebApp.java:652)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.commonInitializationFinish(WebApp.java:350)
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.webapp.WebApp.initialize(WebApp.java:292)
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.webapp.WebGroup.addWebApplication(WebGroup.java:92)
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.VirtualHost.addWebApplication(VirtualHost.java:157)
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.WebContainer.addWebApp(WebContainer.java:666)
at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.WebContainer.addWebApplication(WebContainer.java:619)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.install(WebContainerImpl.java:335)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.start(WebContainerImpl.java:551)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1303)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.fireDeployedObjectStart(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:1138)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedModuleImpl.start(DeployedModuleImpl.java:569)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.start(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:817)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.startApplication(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:949)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl$AppInitializer.run(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:2122)
at com.ibm.wsspi.runtime.component.WsComponentImpl$_AsynchInitializer.run(WsComponentImpl.java:342)
at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1473)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:67)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:522)
at javax.faces.FactoryFinder.newFactoryInstance(FactoryFinder.java:143)
… 22 more
Caused by: java.lang.VerifyError: org/apache/commons/digester/Digester.setEntityResolver(Lorg/xml/sax/EntityResolver;)V
at org.ajax4jsf.resource.ResourceBuilderImpl.registerConfig(ResourceBuilderImpl.java:158)
at org.ajax4jsf.resource.ResourceBuilderImpl.registerResources(ResourceBuilderImpl.java:140)
at org.ajax4jsf.resource.ResourceBuilderImpl.init(ResourceBuilderImpl.java:211)
at org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.ChameleonRenderKitFactory.<init>(ChameleonRenderKitFactory.java:62)
… 27 more