Bug#895866: tomcat8: Errors thrown when connecting to default HTTP connector (localhost:8080)

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org> writes:

> Thank you for reporting this issue Michael. This issue happens because
> tomcat8/8.5.30-1 was built with OpenJDK 9 and can no longer run with
> OpenJDK 8 due to the use of new java.nio.ByteBuffer methods.If you
> switch to OpenJDK 9 to run Tomcat the issue should go away.
>
> I'll make tomcat8 runnable again with OpenJDK 8 in the next update.

Thanks.  This would be good, as a Debian system will use
/usr/lib/jre/default-java to run tomcat8 by default, and that symlink is
not one changed by the alternatives system.  As a result, this will not
run without changing JAVA_HOME in /etc/default/tomcat8.

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Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i at md5i.com)