I tried to install Nexus 1.9.2.2 OSS on my Tomcat 7.0.20 with the new Oracle JDK 7. This was not a big success. Ok first of all make sure to use the unpacked version of the nexus war or else it wont be able to find the NEXUS_PLEXUS_WORK environment variable.

Second, you need to patch the unpacked war. Strip out the xstream-1.3 and add the latest snapshot. Also add the latest xmlpull.org API jar to the WEB-INF/lib of the unpacked nexus war.

More info see this JIRA ticket.

When running JAX-WS applications on Apache Tomcat 7 you might encounter the following exception:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.xml.ws.WebFault.messageName()Ljava/lang/String;
	at com.sun.xml.ws.model.RuntimeModeler.processExceptions(RuntimeModeler.java:1077)

To solve this add the webservices-api-x.y.jar to the CATALINA_HOME/endorsed directory.

Do NOT add the webservice-rt-x.y.jar to the endorsed directory or you will encounter the following exception:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/ServletContext
	at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletDelegate.<init>(WSServletDelegate.java:102)

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