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1864926 - Tomcat 7 fails to start with error "Bad version number in .class file"

Symptom

After applying Service Pack 6 update to XI 3.1, Tomcat 7 fails to start successfully

Catalina.out gives exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
 at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
 at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:268)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)


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Product

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1

Keywords

crash, apache, failed, UnsupportedClassVersionError , KBA , BI-BIP-DEP-TOM , Obsolete, use: BI-BIP-DEP , Problem

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