spring-projects/spring-petclinic — pull request #51 by komarevsky (2014-09-24 06:59:45+00:00)
Title: fix for JasperException when java8 is used

When java8 is used as default JDK the application throws exception when you try to access it.
Consider the following sequence:

1. java -version

java version "1.8.0_20"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_20-b26)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.20-b23, mixed mode)

2. git clone https://github.com/komarevsky/spring-petclinic.git
3. cd spring-petclinic
4. mvn clean install
5. mvn tomcat7:run
6. open in browser "http://localhost:9966/petclinic/"

You will see the following:

HTTP Status 500 - Unable to compile class for JSP:

type Exception report

message Unable to compile class for JSP:

description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP:

An error occurred at line: 1 in the generated java file
The type java.util.Map$Entry cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files

Stacktrace:
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:102)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:331)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.JDTCompiler.generateClass(JDTCompiler.java:469)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:378)
....

Changing tomcat7-maven-plugin version from 2.0 to 2.2 helps to fix it.

Details are [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19243458/tomcat7-not-compiling-jsp-examples)