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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure.dtd">
+<Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
+    <!-- Fix Jetty 9 issue -->
+    <!-- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32643530/classpath-issue-between-jetty-maven-plugin-and-tomcat-jdbc-8-0-9-leading-to-ser -->
+    <Set name="parentLoaderPriority">true</Set>
+</Configure>