“Unknow type constant pool at position X” in tomcat logs since java 8

Question

I have a Java JSF2 web based application deployed on a Tomcat server, and since we moved to Java 8 / Tomcat 8 this error appears a lot in the tomcat output:

Answer 1

I was presenting the same problem

Today I updated my pom.xml file to jsf version: 2.2.15 and that ERROR log was gone.

   com.sun.faces
   jsf-api
   ${jsf.version}
   provided



   com.sun.faces
   jsf-impl
   ${jsf.version}
   provided