Comment 0 for bug 1606331

Tomcat 8.0.32 has a known and corrected bug

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58999

which in some cases prevents a webapp from executing. I have encountered this error. The fix will be to place a later version of Tomcat8 into the Ubuntu 16.04 repository.

I encountered this error using:

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OpenVPMS 1.8.1 (veterinary practice management webapp)
MySQL 5.7.13
Open-jdk 1.8.0_91
Tomcat 8.0.32
mysql-connector-java-5.1.39

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The webapp in this case (OpenVPMS) runs under tomcat7 but not under this specific version of Tomcat (8.0.32). Instead, tomcat throws a 404-/openvpms error. The relevant portion of the tomcat log is:

Caused by: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 3
 at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:658)
 at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.filter(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:2780)
 at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1253)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:411)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
 at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
 at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348)

Thank you.