Is Tomcat 7 now compatible with Java 7?

Question

If not, when is it foreseen for?

If yes, do you know if there is something special to migrate an existing installation of Tomcat 7/Java 6 to Tomcat 7/Java 7?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Officially Java 1.6 or later is supported.

This post goes into more detail.

Answer 2

Last month (Feb. 2013) I updated my Java from 1.6 to 1.7. However, the update has repercussion - Tomcat 7.0.37 is not running anymore after the Java update.

I tried un-installing the Java 1.7, replace with 1.6 and the Apache Tomcat runs smoothly again. I forgot to capture the exact error message and I couldn't find also on the server logs.

FYI.

Thanks

Answer 3

EDITED

As pointed out by sourcedelica the Official documentation says you can use JDK 1.6 or later so you can use Tomcat 7 with JDK 1.7.

Also check the Tomcat 7 Migration Guide .

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By the way your applications developed with JDK 1.6 may fail using JDK 1.7, especially if you use classes in sun.* packages (which is bad). Even if retro-compatibility is strong, some corner cases exist, see Oracle list of incompatibilities for more details.

You can also find some stuff about this in this SO article : New features in JDK 1.6 and 1.7