Dispatcher has no subscribers: Not in IDE, only when deployed to Websphere?!

[tony_k]

i have a junit test and a webapp which execute the same SI 2.0.5 (Spring 3.0.5) code successfully in STS and RAD
(war under tomcat in STS, ear under websphere in RAD),
but when i build the code into an ear using ant and deploy to websphere (6.1.x) "proper",
i get:

[1/19/12 12:58:08:690 EST] 0000004f SystemErr     R Caused by: org.springframework.integration.MessageDeliveryException: Dispatcher has no subscribers.
	at org.springframework.integration.dispatcher.UnicastingDispatcher.doDispatch(UnicastingDispatcher.java:104)
	at org.springframework.integration.dispatcher.UnicastingDispatcher.dispatch(UnicastingDispatcher.java:97)
	at org.springframework.integration.channel.AbstractSubscribableChannel.doSend(AbstractSubscribableChannel.java:61)
	at org.springframework.integration.channel.AbstractMessageChannel.send(AbstractMessageChannel.java:157)
	at org.springframework.integration.channel.AbstractMessageChannel.send(AbstractMessageChannel.java:128)
	at org.springframework.integration.core.MessagingTemplate.doSend(MessagingTemplate.java:288)
	at org.springframework.integration.core.MessagingTemplate.doSendAndReceive(MessagingTemplate.java:318)
	at org.springframework.integration.core.MessagingTemplate.sendAndReceive(MessagingTemplate.java:239)
	at org.springframework.integration.core.MessagingTemplate.sendAndReceive(MessagingTemplate.java:235)

there are some specific details about code, build scripts and websphere that i can look into,
but before i potentially go on a witch hunt, i figured i'd go bumming for suggestions as to what might lead to
this disparate behavior across environments (vs i just flubbed the configuration and it has never worked).

for instance, in my preliminary investigation, i came across some mention of SmartLifecycle. I'm not familiar with this,
so i haven't made use of it explicitly, could not paying attention to that cause subtle timing differences in different environments that could lead to this condition? if so, how might i hook into the SmartLifecycle to affect this?

any suggestions appreciated,
tony.

[tony_k]

after a few bounces of the websphere jvm this issue seems to have resolved itself.

i'm going to chalk this one up to websphere gremlins and move on