2536407 - SAP PD Web server is unavailable: SQLServerDriver has been compiled by a more recent version of the JRE

• Error is returned when trying to log in to SAP PD Web: "The PowerDesigner Web server is unavailable. Please contact your administrator."
• Files portalserver16-stderr.log and catalina.log report:

SEVERE: One or more listeners failed to start. Full details will be found in the appropriate container log file
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Context [/powerdesigner-web] startup failed due to previous errors
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase clearReferencesThreads
SEVERE: The web application [/powerdesigner-web] appears to have started a thread named [CMRLightCacheCleaner] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak.
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase clearReferencesThreads
SEVERE: The web application [/powerdesigner-web] appears to have started a thread named [CMRSessionTimeoutThread] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak.
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase clearReferencesThreads
SEVERE: The web application [/powerdesigner-web] appears to have started a thread named [net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager@36681b84] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak.
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR

• localhost.log raises:

SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.sap.powerdesigner.web.StartupListener
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/SQLServerDriver has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 52.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 51.0 (unable to load class com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver)
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• SAP PowerDesigner (PD) Web 16.6
• Microsoft SQL Server

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