it's a tomcat problem, solved with version 7.0.24.
To avoid the "lots of warning" part you can add metadata-complete="true" to your portlet's web.xml :
My example:
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" metadata-complete="true">
To avoid the "lots of warning" part you can add metadata-complete="true" to your portlet's web.xml :
My example:
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" metadata-complete="true">