Hi
I was trying to test HTTP/2 and tried versions 8.5.0 and 9.0.0.M4. I was not able to start these releases because I get NoClassDefFoundError. Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/ServletContainerInitializer at java.lang.ClassLoader.findBootstrapClass(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.findBootstrapClassOrNull(ClassLoader.java:1015) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:413) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoader Base.java:1216) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoader Base.java:1131) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348) at org.apache.catalina.startup.WebappServiceLoader.loadServices(WebappServiceLo ader.java:188) at org.apache.catalina.startup.WebappServiceLoader.load(WebappServiceLoader.jav a:159) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processServletContainerInitializer s(ContextConfig.java:1611) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1131) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java: 771) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java: 298) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java :94) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java: 5092) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:152) ... 10 more Class javax/servlet/ServletContainerInitializer is found in the servlet-api.jar which is inplace. I am starting it with: bin\catalina.bat jpda run This works fine with earlier tomcat releases. For example 8.0.33. Any change made to these releases? BR Lulseged