Tomcat prerequisites There are minimal prerequisites to install Tomcat. All you need is a version 1.8 installation of the JDK or newer with the JAVA_HOME environment set up, and optionally the JDK’s ...

Some developers try and change the Java compiler setting within Eclipse from Java 1.5 to Java 1.8, but that only works temporarily. As soon as a new Maven build takes place, the JDK version reverts ...