If you can do without running WAS as a Windows service, try deleting the service and see if that helps. You can do this by deleting the registry entry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Services > IBMWAS70Service. I had some other conflicts with having WAS as a service and at the moment, and I’m sorry, I don’t recall what specific problems I had at the time, but I do recall some problems going away after deleting the service.
I had problems deploying to WebSphere 7 after upgrading to MEB 8.6. After days of trying just about everything else, I was finally able to deploy to WAS from MEB when I created a new workspace, then created a new clean project, then copied all my Java source, config files, jsp’s, and etc. into the new project.
Neil