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Asked: May 11, 20262026-05-11T18:47:33+00:00 2026-05-11T18:47:33+00:00

I developed a Tomcat application using Tomcat 6 for testing. I have now deployed

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I developed a Tomcat application using Tomcat 6 for testing. I have now deployed it to Tomcat 5.5 – when I invoke the servlet I get an error which doesn’t make much sense to me. Does anyone know what causes this error.

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: Error allocating a servlet instance
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:874)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
root cause

java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1853)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:875)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1330)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1209)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:874)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

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    2026-05-11T18:47:33+00:00Added an answer on May 11, 2026 at 6:47 pm

    This has nothing to do with tomcat. The error is caused by .class file version difference.

    Most likely, you’ve compiled a .class file with Java6, and have tried to run it on Java5.

    The solution is to either run tomcat5.5 on the newer version of Java, or just recompile.

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