Spring Boot 1.4 deployment on Openshift v2 :: NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/SessionIdGenerator

Question

While deploying my Spring Boot appliction on Openshift v2 I keep on getting this error. Locally within IntelliJ the application is working fine.

NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/SessionIdGenerator

Edit:
Was this a Spring Boot version issue? Answer: yes. See below.

Edit 2: **
A solution was to use the Spring Boot 1.3.6 version.
A **BETTER solution is to add the in the section of the pom.xml. See below.

This is the stacktrace:

remote: org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Unable to start embedded container; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/SessionIdGenerator

remote:         at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.onRefresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:137) ~[spring-boot-1.4.2.RELEASE.jar!/:1.4.2.RELEASE]

remote:         at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:536) ~[spring-context-4.3.4.RELEASE.jar!/:4.3.4.RELEASE]

remote:         at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.refresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:122) ~[spring-boot-1.4.2.RELEASE.jar!/:1.4.2.RELEASE]

...

This is the pom.xml file:

    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

             xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 

http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>nl.xyz</groupId>

    <artifactId>johan974rest</artifactId>

    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <name>johan974rest</name>

    <packaging>jar</packaging>



    <!-- Use parent POM.xml -->

    <parent>

        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>

        <version>1.4.2.RELEASE</version>

    </parent>



    <dependencies>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>

            <scope>test</scope> 

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-ws</artifactId>

        </dependency>

        <!-- For data access and JPA -->

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-rest</artifactId>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

            <artifactId>spring-boot-test-autoconfigure</artifactId>

            <version>1.4.2.RELEASE</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>

        </dependency>



        <!-- Database -->

        <dependency>

            <groupId>mysql</groupId>

            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>

            <scope>runtime</scope>

        </dependency>

    </dependencies>



    <properties>

        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

        <start-class>nl.xyz.springbootcellar.Application</start-class>

        <java.version>1.8</java.version>

        <tomcat.version>8.0.9</tomcat.version>

    </properties>



    <build>

        <plugins>

            <plugin>

                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>

            </plugin>

        </plugins>

    </build>

</project>

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Answer 1

A better answer allows you to use the Spring Boot 1.4 !!!

Just add this to your POM.xml file:

<build>
    <!-- ADDED/start ... -->
    <pluginManagement>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                    <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.6</version>
                <configuration>
                    <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
    <!-- ADDED/end ... -->
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Spring Boot 1.4 deployment on Openshift v2 :: NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/SessionIdGenerator

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