Deploying last version of hapi rest server skeleton on Tomcat: problems caused by JDK 17 requirement

[ppazos]

I have downloaded the last version of https://github.com/FirelyTeam/fhirstarters/tree/master/java/hapi-fhirstarters-rest-server-skeleton

While building, detected a dependency that requires JDK17 (I'm using JDK11), I think it's the overlay app.

After switching to JDK17 the build worked OK.

Then when I tried to deploy the WAR on Tomcat, it didn't.

Checked the Tomcat support and the only version that supports JDK17 is Tomcat 11 which is still unstable,

This is just a testing exercise, but if you would like to deploy a prod site, the current dependencies won't allow you to do so.

I would suggest to lower the JDK version required on the dependencies to 11 to be able to use a stable version of Tomcat.