Error Running tomcat

[Umesha Vagga]

Hi, 

i am getting below error when i deployed vsconsole.war into tomcat,

Mar 03, 2016 6:24:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR

SEVERE: Error deploying web application archive vsconsole.war

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tomcat/PeriodicEventListener

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800)

        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)

        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:2854)

        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1159)

        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1647)

        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1526)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1128)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1026)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4425)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4738)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:799)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:779)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:583)

        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:943)

        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:778)

        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:504)

        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1317)

        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:324)

        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1065)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:822)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1057)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525)

        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754)

        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)

        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)

        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.PeriodicEventListener

        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1680)

        at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1526)

        ... 33 more

can you please help me to resolve this issue.

thanks,

Umesha