Struggling while starting the application(Jira 3.13.3, JDK 1.8) on Tomcat 8

Question

The same application (Jira 3.13.3 , JDK 1.8) up and running successfully on Tomcat 7.

But not working in Tomcat 8. Getting below exceptions.

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09-Nov-2017 10:52:30.093 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.atlassian.jira.appconsistency.db.DatabaseCompatibilityEnforcer
 java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcConnection.isValid(I)Z
    at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.DelegatingConnection.isValid(DelegatingConnection.java:916)

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09-Nov-2017 10:52:30.568 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.ConsistencyLauncher
 java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager.quickStart(ComponentManager.java:690)

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09-Nov-2017 10:52:30.654 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
09-Nov-2017 10:52:33.667 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Those versions are completely incompatible, it's never going to work properly.

Jira 3 is old, totally unsupported and has known security problems.  You need to upgrade it if you want to use it with a secure Tomcat and Java version and to get it supportable.

I'm quite surprised it worked in Tomcat 7, as the version of Java required to run Tomcat 7 is incompatible with Jira 3, and Tomcat 5 is the last one that could run Jira 3

Your solution is pretty much "upgrade"

naveen sabari · Answer

Hi Edwin,

You are confirming that jira 3.13.3 will not be supported in

tomcat 8.

Am i Correct ?

can you please suggest me the solution ?

Do I need to upgrade the JIRA Version ? If yes , how ?

Edwin Kyalangalilwa · Answer

Hi Naveen,

The application will not work with Tomcat 1.8. It is not compatible.