logger is gettin class cast exception

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
i tried to implement the ESAPI implementation in our application like the below 
code by adding ESAPI jar and two property files and added the system resource 
variable pointing to the property files ,

import org.owasp.esapi.Logger;
import org.owasp.esapi.ESAPI;

public class BrandTag extends BodyTagSupport {

                private final static Logger logger = (org.owasp.esapi.Logger)ESAPI.getLogger(BrandTag.class);

        public int doStartTag() throws javax.servlet.jsp.JspException{

                Object sessionObj = pageContext.getSession().getAttribute(getBrandName);

                if(getBrandName!= null){

            try {

                        logger.info(Logger.EVENT_SUCCESS,"ESAPI's log: brand received from getBrandName is "+getBrandName);

with this code am able get the log only after restarting the web server. if i 
made any changes in code and try to publish it, am getting  error 
org.owasp.esapi.reference.Log4JLogger incompatible with org.owasp.esapi.Logger.

i have deployed EAR in DEV server, its working fine. but in RSA while 
publishing only am getting class type cast error

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by balakrsn...@gmail.com on 28 May 2014 at 8:57