I have a problem with APEX app builder/sql workshop for a while. There is a encoding issue (APEX must serve EastEuropean chars). Finnaly i found the source of the issue. I have
Adding the CharackerEncodingFilter to web.xml was correct. I found the logs and I noticed that there was a problem with missing classes.
There was requirment to add some .jar to WEB-INF/lib
After tomcat restart everything works fine