DHTMLX java connector is not working with java 8

Hi,

I am using DHTMLX connector from past 2 years and it was working fine for me.
But recently I have updated my JRE to 1.8 and it stops working. Please help.

Here is the error i am getting.

20-Jan-2015 10:48:48.721 SEVERE [http-nio-8080-exec-2] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke Servlet.service() for servlet [dhtmlxConnector] in context with path [] threw exception [Servlet execution threw an exception] with root cause
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.dhtmlx.connector.DataItem.set_userdata(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V
at com.soffront.scheduler.CustomBehaviour.beforeRender(CustomBehaviour.java:161)
at com.dhtmlx.connector.ConnectorBehavior.beforeRender(ConnectorBehavior.java:83)
at com.dhtmlx.connector.BaseConnector.render_set(BaseConnector.java:411)
at com.dhtmlx.connector.BaseConnector.output_as_xml(BaseConnector.java:453)
at com.dhtmlx.connector.BaseConnector.render(BaseConnector.java:308)
at com.dhtmlx.connector.BaseConnector.render_sql(BaseConnector.java:262)
at com.dhtmlx.connector.BaseConnector.render_sql(BaseConnector.java:230)
at com.soffront.scheduler.BasicConnector.configure(BasicConnector.java:166)
at com.dhtmlx.connector.ThreadSafeConnectorServlet.doGet(ThreadSafeConnectorServlet.java:19)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:618)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:725)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:291)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:219)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:106)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:505)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:142)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteIpValve.invoke(RemoteIpValve.java:676)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:610)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:88)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:534)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1081)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:658)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11NioProtocol.java:222)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1566)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1523)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Connector itself works correctly with Java 8 ( at least in local test )
Most probably issue caused by usage of set_userdata method in the CustomBehavior class

Can you share content of com.soffront.scheduler.CustomBehaviour.beforeRender(CustomBehaviour.java:161)