The following Exception is thrown while parsing the struts-1.2.9.jar for annotations. This was not the case in tomcat 8.0.12: 2014-11-25 15:44:03,989 ERROR [localhost-startStop-1] (org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig) Unable to process Jar entry [org/apache/struts/util/ModuleException.class] from Jar [jar:file:/cms/ece/tomcat/webapps/escenic-admin.war!/WEB-INF/lib/struts-1.2.9(1).jar] for annotations java.io.EOFException at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.FastDataInputStream.readInt(FastDataInputStream.java:145) at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.Utility.swallowAttribute(Utility.java:86) at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.Utility.swallowFieldOrMethod(Utility.java:77) at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.readMethods(ClassParser.java:235) at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.parse(ClassParser.java:92) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsStream(ContextConfig.java:1994) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsJar(ContextConfig.java:1944) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsUrl(ContextConfig.java:1919) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotations(ContextConfig.java:1880) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1149) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:771) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:305) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5095) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:725) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:701) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:714) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:917) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1701) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 57173 ***