Hi,
I am by no means an expert, however generally I too have had problems
running the latest versions of tomcat using Java < 1.6.0.
I am not sure of the reason but using Java 1.6.0_02 makes most problems
go away. (I am guessing the tomcat 6 distro is compiled with java 1.6?)
Try this to get
I believe it may be the JVM in question causing this error. A while back, I
tried to bump up my JDK from 1.4.2 to 1.5 and it caused all kinds of
complilation errors, and errors like this as well. And I'm still on the TC
4.1.x series. I had to uninstall that JDK's JVm to get everything to compile