Bug 36123 - TOMCAT FAILS TO START WITH JDK1.3
Summary: TOMCAT FAILS TO START WITH JDK1.3
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Tomcat 5
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Catalina (show other bugs)
Version: 5.5.10
Hardware: All All
: P2 major (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List
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Reported: 2005-08-10 15:53 UTC by Shantala
Modified: 2005-08-10 10:00 UTC (History)
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Description Shantala 2005-08-10 15:53:30 UTC 
Running.txt says
"
===========================================
Running Tomcat With J2SE Version 1.4 or 1.3
==========================================="

but when tried running with jdk13x these are errors displayed

C:\Documents and Settings\bhatsh\Desktop\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.10\bin>catalina.bat 
version
Using CATALINA_BASE:   D:\tomcat\IX6.5\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.10
Using CATALINA_HOME:   D:\tomcat\IX6.5\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.10
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: D:\tomcat\IX6.5\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.10\temp
Using JAVA_HOME:       C:\jdk1.3.1_16
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: 
org/apache/catalina/util/ServerInfo (Unsupported major.minor version 48.0)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:488)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass
(SecureClassLoader.java:106)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:243)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:51)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:190)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:183)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:294)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:288)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:250)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:310)



We found the same behaviour on Tru64 OS as well.
Comment 1 Remy Maucherat 2005-08-10 18:00:25 UTC 
Ok, so there's a small discrepancy in the docs. Tomcat 5.5 requires Java 5 (it
can also run on JDK 1.4 with an additional binary bundle). That's it, no JDK 1.3.