I just remembered something. 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 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> [...] cjb> Is it possible that something on the server changed while the cjb> older app was running, but the effects of the change were not cjb> revealed until after the reboot? That is, maybe everything was cjb> resident and running in memory, but something on the disk cjb> changed while the old version was still in use, so the old version cjb> was broken on disk before we even started doing upgrades. In cjb> effect, the rug got pulled out from underneath the app, but TC cjb> or the app didn't notice until after the new app was reloaded cjb> into memory. Is that possible? We tried to do the upgrade 9/18/18 and then rolled back. But I remember now, in my periodic testing on 9/4/18, a compile error, for which I decided to keep a copy of the stack trace (please see below). So something *did* happen before we even started messing with the server 2 days ago. But I didn't follow up on it - oops, see where that got me. org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP: An error occurred at line: 1 in the generated java file The type java.io.ObjectInputStream cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files Stacktrace: at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:92) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:330) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JDTCompiler.generateClass(JDTCompiler.java:439) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:349) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:327) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:314) at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:592) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:326) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:313) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:260) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at servlets.filters.AuthFilter.doFilter(AuthFilter.java:47) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at servlets.filters.SanitizeFilter.doFilter(SanitizeFilter.java:42) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.logging.log4j.web.Log4jServletFilter.doFilter(Log4jServletFilter.java:71) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298) at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:190) at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:291) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:776) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:705) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:898) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:690) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) -- 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