I was trying to see a simple servlet when I got the following server
error! What does that mean, a "UnsupportedClassVersionError" and how
do I go about fixing this problem in hopefully the quickest way possible??
HTTP Status 500 -
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type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented
it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Error allocating a servlet instance
com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:73)
com.sun.enterprise.web.VirtualServerPipeline.invoke(VirtualServerPipeline.java:120)
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:231)
com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(ProcessorTask.java:667)
com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ProcessorTask.processNonBlocked(ProcessorTask.java:574)
com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:844)
com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ReadTask.executeProcessorTask(ReadTask.java:287)
com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ReadTask.doTask(ReadTask.java:212)
com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.TaskBase.run(TaskBase.java:252)
com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:75)
root cause
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1955)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:945)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1411)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1275)
com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:73)
com.sun.enterprise.web.VirtualServerPipeline.invoke(VirtualServerPipeline.java:120)
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:231)
com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(ProcessorTask.java:667)
com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ProcessorTask.processNonBlocked(ProcessorTask.java:574)
com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:844)
com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ReadTask.executeProcessorTask(ReadTask.java:287)
com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.ReadTask.doTask(ReadTask.java:212)
com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.TaskBase.run(TaskBase.java:252)
com.sun.enterprise.web.connector.grizzly.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:75)
