Konstantin, et al Well, it's all a moot point now. :-)
cjb> After reverting Java and our app, the app still cjb> won't run and still throws compilation errors. cjb> * Staging Server - after rollback cjb> JRE 8u171, 32 bit cjb> Tomcat 6.0.32, 32 bit (unchanged) cjb> App v3.3.2 kk> My guess is that the Eclipse Compiler for Java in kk> your Tomcat 6.0.32 was released N years ago and kk> cannot deal with Java 8u181. From the message it kk> looks like it cannot parse some class file. cjb> Except that we reverted both Java and our cjb> application back to the previous versions, 8u171 cjb> and 3.3.2 respectively, and still get the error. cjb> * Partial stack trace: cjb> org.apache.jasper.compiler.JDTCompiler$1 findType cjb> SEVERE: Compilation error cjb> org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.classfmt.classFormatException cjb> [...] kk> Option 2: Upgrade!! kk> Tomcat 6 has reached end of life. cjb> I knew someone would say that. :-) Yeah, that's "next" down the road, once this round of upgrades is done. The SA installed JRE 8u181 and TC 8.5.30, which fixed the problem. Bypassed CM, testing, approval process, etc. - but it works! Still don't understand what went wrong. -- Cris Berneburg CACI Lead Software Engineer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org