Please close this track.
The problem was that we had attached the javaagent library a file system path. We got over this by putting this library in the web inf lib. Because of unsatidied linkage errorit looked to me that a dll was perhaps missung or not available in the PATH. ( This being a windows system). The definition of gerObjectSize is native. However, sice the system continuted to work as a standalone application, it proved that the systm had access to the underlying implementations. Probably , the initial load refernce point was not availble in the loaded classes in the WAS JVM.