I tried to deploy a service "MyServices" in a .war file to tomcat5. But tomcat failed to load the service and reported the following:
INFO: Deploying web application archive MyServices.war May 28, 2010 3:02:24 AM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader validateJarFile INFO: validateJarFile(/usr/share/tomcat5/webapps/MyServices/WEB-INF/lib/servlet-api-2.4.jar) - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Offending class: javax/ servlet/Servlet.class 03:02:24,140 ERROR [/MyServices]:3715 - Error configuring application listener of class ServletContextListener java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1847) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:873) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1326) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1205) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3712) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4212) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:760) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:740) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:825) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:714) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:592) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433) 03:02:24,144 ERROR [/MyServices]:3722 - Skipped installing application listeners due to previous error(s) May 28, 2010 3:02:24 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error listenerStart May 28, 2010 3:02:24 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Context [/MyServices] startup failed due to previous errors Any thoughts? Thanks! -Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org