It still seems odd that I have to include the jar, since the
StandardRequestHandler should be picked up in the war right? Is this also a
sign that there must be something wrong with the deployment?
Note that in 1.3, the StandardRequestHandler was moved from
o.a.s.request to o.a.s.handler:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/solr/trunk/src/java/org/apache/solr/request/StandardRequestHandler.java
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/solr/trunk/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/StandardRequestHandler.java
If you are subclassing StandardRequestHandler, make sure you are using a
consistent versions
ryan