[GERONIMO-3518] UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file causes Install New Applications "to hang"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.2, 2.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.3, 2.1
• Component/s: deployment
• Security Level: public (Regular issues)
• Assignee: Jarek Gawor
• Reporter: Jacek Laskowski
• Created: 09/Oct/07 11:20
• Updated: 23/Jul/08 20:56
• Resolved: 28/Jan/08 15:30

Description

I built a webapp with Java 6 whereas Geronimo run on Java 5. During deployment from the web console Geronimo threw exception ICVE, but the console kept waiting for the server response.

java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.classloader.JarFileClassLoader.access$200(JarFileClassLoader.java:52)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.classloader.JarFileClassLoader$6.run(JarFileClassLoader.java:308)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.classloader.JarFileClassLoader.findClass(JarFileClassLoader.java:260)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.MultiParentClassLoader.loadOptimizedClass(MultiParentClassLoader.java:422)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.MultiParentClassLoader.loadClass(MultiParentClassLoader.java:278)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
at org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.builder.WARWebServiceFinder.discoverPOJOWebServices(WARWebServiceFinder.java:109)
at org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.builder.WARWebServiceFinder.discoverWebServices(WARWebServiceFinder.java:58)
at org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.builder.JAXWSServiceBuilder.discoverWebServices(JAXWSServiceBuilder.java:97)
at org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.builder.JAXWSServiceBuilder.findWebServices(JAXWSServiceBuilder.java:80)
at org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.builder.JAXWSServiceBuilder$$FastClassByCGLIB$$5b2252ff.invoke(<generated>)
at net.sf.cglib.reflect.FastMethod.invoke(FastMethod.java:53)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.FastMethodInvoker.invoke(FastMethodInvoker.java:38)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:124)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:830)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.RawInvoker.invoke(RawInvoker.java:57)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.RawOperationInvoker.invoke(RawOperationInvoker.java:35)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.ProxyMethodInterceptor.intercept(ProxyMethodInterceptor.java:96)
at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.WebServiceBuilder$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$3420fdf8.findWebServices(<generated>)
at org.apache.geronimo.web25.deployment.AbstractWebModuleBuilder.basicInitContext(AbstractWebModuleBuilder.java:353)
at org.apache.geronimo.jetty6.deployment.JettyModuleBuilder.initContext(JettyModuleBuilder.java:322)
at org.apache.geronimo.jetty6.deployment.JettyModuleBuilder$$FastClassByCGLIB$$1a00be84.invoke(<generated>)