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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hello Jody,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I have had no luck in running GeoServer under Java 8. I keep seeing on the website that it is compatible but that’s not the case with me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">For instance, I just downloaded the WAR file of this new release and put in Tomcat and restarted but it doesn’t run.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I have other webapps in my Tomcat installation and they run fine. Any clue on what’s going on?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">My java below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">PS C:\Web\Tomcat\bin> java -version<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">java version "1.8.0_91"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_91-b14)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.91-b14, mixed mode)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">PS C:\Web\Tomcat\bin><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Your help will be much appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Faustin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jody Garnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 31 May 2016 00:42<br>
<b>To:</b> OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoServer 2.9.0 Released<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The GeoServer team is happy to announce the release of GeoServer 2.9.0:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="http://geoserver.org/release/2.9.0/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">http://geoserver.org/release/2.9.0/</span></a><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This is the new stable release suitable for use in production. This release <b>requires the use of Java 8</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Important updates:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Web admin application layer, preview, global settings, image processing and raster access screens have been updated.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">User guide has been restructured for ease of navigation and to reduce duplication</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The REST API can now be used to manage icons, fonts and configuration files and report on the status of installed components.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Internally this release features Wicket 7 and Spring 4 and the latest JAI-Ext library.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Layer bounds can now be generated from spatial reference systems extent</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Styles can now be configured with a custom legend.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For more details please see the </span><a href="http://blog.geoserver.org/2016/05/30/geoserver-2-9-0-released/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">blog post</span></a> <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">and
release notes </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262523"> (</span><a href="https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&version=13003"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">2.9.0</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262523">|</span><a href="https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&version=12502"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">RC1</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262523">|</span><a href="https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&version=12700"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">beta2</span></a><span style="color:#262523">|</span><a href="https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&version=12100"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">beta</span></a>|<a href="https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&version=11401"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">M0</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262523">)</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262523">Thanks to Jody and Devon (from Boundless) for publishing this release. This release was delayed for two months due to incompatibility with Java 8. Thanks for the
dedicated testing a fix support from Andrea, Alessandro, Alex, Ben, Brad, Jukka, Niels, Torben and others during this long release cycle. Special thanks to sponsors of the </span><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Code_Sprint_2016"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Wicket
7 upgrade</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262523"> sprint: </span><a href="http://www.osgeo.org/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">OSGeo</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262523">, </span><a href="http://boundlessgeo.com/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Boundless</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262523">, </span><a href="http://www.vividsolutions.com/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Vivid
Solutions</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262523">, </span><a href="http://www.how2map.com/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">How
2 Map</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262523">, </span><a href="https://www.sjwater.com/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">San Jose
Water Company</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262523">, </span><a href="http://transient.nz/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Transient</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262523">, </span><a href="http://www.geobeyond.it/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0076A1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Geobeyond</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262523"> (with
in-kind sponsors GeoSolutions, CCRi, Astun Technology and Voyager).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The GeoServer Team</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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