I'm compiling a jar file with JCC 2.4.1, and get the following: % python -m jcc.__main__ --build --jar GoodStuff.jar 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:676) 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$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:317) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:280) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:375) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/runpy.py", line 95, in run_module filename, loader, alter_sys) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/runpy.py", line 52, in _run_module_code mod_name, mod_fname, mod_loader) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/runpy.py", line 32, in _run_code exec code in run_globals File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/JCC-2.4.1-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg/jcc/__main__.py", line 88, in <module> cpp.jcc(sys.argv) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/JCC-2.4.1-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg/jcc/cpp.py", line 409, in jcc cls = findClass(className.replace('.', '/')) jcc.cpp.JavaError: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file Java stacktrace: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:676) 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$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:317) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:280) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:375)
% At times like these it would be very handy to know just which class file is causing the problem. Also, I just compiled this GoodStuff.jar file from source with the same java. How can there be version number mismatches? Bill