In rev. 1343263 I have removed several jars files from catalina/lib and replaced a few of them with the ones packaged in the "new" "Embedded" distribution of Tomcat (at the same version 7.0.27):
http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi I hope that the notes of the process I have followed will be useful for future upgrades: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/How+to+upgrade+the+embedded+Tomcat I did some cursory tests and all looks good so far, but please help with tests and report any issues you will find. Thanks, Jacopo