3098251 - BI web applications do not start on Netweaver

• None of the BI web applications start on Netweaver (HTTP 500 Internal Server Error seen when accessing any of /BOE/BI, /BOE/CMC, /biprws)
• In the Netweaver default traces, after the error is reproduced, the following entry is seen:
  Cannot process an HTTP request to servlet [equinoxbridgeservlet] in [BOE] web application.
  [EXCEPTION]
  com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.exceptions.WebServletException: Web Container cannot put into service the following class [org.eclipse.equinox.servletbridge.BridgeServlet].The error is [Exception while calling getServlet(equinoxbridgeservlet). java.lang.ClassFormatError: Illegal local variable table length 10 in method org.eclipse.equinox.servletbridge.BridgeServlet.service(Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse;)V].
   at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.application.WebComponents.getServlet(WebComponents.java:856)

• SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.x (BI 4.1 / 4.2 / 4.3)
• Netweaver
• Windows
• Linux / Unix 

KBA , BI-BIP-DEP , Webapp Deployment, Networking, Vulnerabilities, Webservices , Problem