Hi, I had something similar (Win2K, Cygwin :). I had to do some minor modifications in the startup srcipt to amend the situation:
1) as it seems JAVA_HOME is read by the executing JVM to resolve the place of the bootstrap classes set JAVA_HOME=c:\jdk1.4.0 2) calling explicitly the appropriate java.exe %JAVA_HOME%\bin\java blahblah... hope this helps Janos |-----Original Message----- |From: Scott Shorter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 3:36 PM |To: 'Tomcat Users List' |Subject: RE: Upgrade to JDK1.4 --> unable to compile JSPs | | |Randy and Ralph, | |Thanks for you quick replies. | |I've quadruple checked - I deleted all JDKs and JVMs on my machine |except for the one I just installed. The problem remains, unmodified. | |Is it possible that some of my jar files need updating? | |Thanks, |Scott | |> -----Original Message----- |> From: Randy Layman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 8:42 AM |> To: 'Tomcat Users List' |> Subject: RE: Upgrade to JDK1.4 --> unable to compile JSPs |> |> |> |> Double (and triple check) that you are really running |> Tomcat with JDK 1.4. This error message is only generated by |> older JVMs when presented with newer JAR files (i.e. a 1.3 |> JVM trying to read a 1.4 JAR file). |> |> Randy |> |> > -----Original Message----- |> > From: Scott Shorter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |> > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:12 AM |> > To: 'Tomcat Users List' |> > Subject: Upgrade to JDK1.4 --> unable to compile JSPs |> > |> > |> > Hi all, |> > |> > I've browsed the archives and found people asking this |> question, but |> > couldn't find any answers to it, so here goes... |> > |> > Platform: Win2K + Cygwin |> > Tomcat: 4.0.1 |> > |> > I upgraded to JDK1.4 in order to take advantage of the |> java.util.regex |> > package (yay, no reason to use perl again!). Everything was going |> > swimmingly until it was time to recompile some JSPs, and I now |> > consistently get errors of the form: |> > |> > org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class |> > for JSPerror: |> > Invalid class file format in |> > C:\cygwin\usr\local\java\jdk1.4\jre\lib\rt.jar(java/lang/Objec |> > t.class). |> > The major.minor version '48.0' is too recent for this tool to |> > understand. |> > |> > Any assistance will be greatly appreciated... |> > |> > Thanks, |> > Scott |> > |> > |> > -- |> > To unsubscribe: |> <mailto:tomcat-user-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> > For |> additional commands: |> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> > Troubles with the list: |> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> > |> |> -- |> To |> unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> | | |-- |To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>