Package: tomcat8
Version: 8.5.9-1
Severity: important
Tomcat 8 is compatible with Java 7 or higher, but the tomcat8 package
was built with Java 8 and using Java 7 at runtime may lead to this
error:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.keySet()Ljava/util/concurrent/ConcurrentHashMap$KeySetView;
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.getInitParameterNames(ApplicationContext.java:319)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContextFacade.getInitParameterNames(ApplicationContextFacade.java:368)
This error happens because the return type of ConcurrentHashMap.keySet()
changed in Java 8 from Set<K> to KeySetView<K,V>, and the KeySetView
class is new in Java 8. At compile time the signature of the method
used is recorded in the class file, and the Java 7 runtimes are unable
to resolve it.
The tomcat8 package should require a Java 8 runtime to avoid this issue.
