Unable to process Jar entry [javassist/ByteArrayClassPath.class] from Jar

Issue

• We see an error like the following running our application on RHEL 7's tomcat package:

org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig processAnnotationsJar
SEVERE: Unable to process Jar entry [javassist/ByteArrayClassPath.class] from Jar [jar:file:/opt/local/tomcat/pctoolsbe/webapps/iwms/WEB-INF/lib/javassist-3.20.0-GA.jar!/] for annotations
java.io.EOFException
                at java.io.DataInputStream.readUnsignedShort(DataInputStream.java:340)
                at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.Utility.swallowMethodParameters(Utility.java:796)
                at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.Attribute.readAttribute(Attribute.java:171)
                at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.FieldOrMethod.(FieldOrMethod.java:57)
                at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.Method.(Method.java:71)
                at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.readMethods(ClassParser.java:267)