Created attachment 31491 [details] Patch to http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc7.0.x/trunk See https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56283#c3 I propose using the same solution for tomcat7 as implemented in tomcat6, that is to use the string "1.8" instead of CompilerOptions.VERSION_1_8.