Invalid byte tag in constant pool: 19 error message

Question

This error message shows that the Tomcat is 8.0.30, and I am using JDK 8. I am creating a Spring-boot project. Some suggested that JDK 8 should be used but I indeed am using

Answer 1

In order to upgrade the tomcat version for the tomcat7-maven-plugin.

    7.0.93


    
        
            org.apache.tomcat.maven
            tomcat7-maven-plugin
            2.2
            
                
                    org.apache.tomcat.embed
                    tomcat-embed-core
                    ${tomcat7-version}