I have downloaded the war file you attached to the jira, and I couldn't make it work where the application wouldn't start when deployed to tomcat. I then replaced all jars in the photark/WEB-INF/lib with the ones from my own jar and things worked again. This might mean you have some corrupted jars in your environment, so I'd recommend renaming/deleting your current maven m2 repository (~/.m2/repository) and then build again (which would force downloading the jars again from maven public repos). After that, please try the war again, and let me know if this would help.
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