war file is not getting deployed when using Tomcat 8 embedded in Eclipse

[prabharj]

The following error pops up:

Exception in thread "http-nio-8080-Acceptor-0" java.lang.ClassCircularityError: java/util/logging/LogRecord
at org.slf4j.bridge.SLF4JBridgeHandler.getSLF4JLogger(SLF4JBridgeHandler.java:198)
at org.slf4j.bridge.SLF4JBridgeHandler.publish(SLF4JBridgeHandler.java:293)
at java.util.logging.Logger.log(Logger.java:738)
at java.util.logging.Logger.doLog(Logger.java:765)
at java.util.logging.Logger.logp(Logger.java:1041)
at org.apache.juli.logging.DirectJDKLog.log(DirectJDKLog.java:182)
at org.apache.juli.logging.DirectJDKLog.error(DirectJDKLog.java:148)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$Acceptor.run(NioEndpoint.java:741)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

[prabharj]

Please note : Play version is 2.4.x , Eclipse Mars (4.5.2)