As a side note, things got a whole lot easier with the latest Tomcat 8 release (thanks to @coleman-rik for the tip!)
Leaving this here in case anyone stumbles across this thread in the future and happens to be running a version >= 8.5.3:
As a side note, things got a whole lot easier with the latest Tomcat 8 release (thanks to @coleman-rik for the tip!)
Leaving this here in case anyone stumbles across this thread in the future and happens to be running a version >= 8.5.3: