Switching to just using /lib isn't required for the switch to Tomcat 8.
Matthew Jones March 19, 2015 at 10:08 AM
I also think that switching to a stanrdard lib based based deploy would be really nice to finally have for 11 along with this too SAK-22241. Though I'm guessing it still isn't required?
http://tomcat.apache.org/migration-8.html