Check out 4 Mistakes To Avoid On Apache Tomcat by Mark Thomas on how putting the context. Xml in the wrong place can create more connections than you intend to. Long story short.
Nothing worked, finally abandoned the hardware and same codebase, driver and mysql installation worked.
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