Incompatible magic value error

[Meghna Bhardwaj]

Hi All,

I am having an unusual problem with Eclipse. When I try to start my Tomcat Server, i get the error below in my console window:

    
[ERROR] 02/20/08 13:59:38 org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader:initWebApplicationContext():205: 
    Context initialization failed
 
org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Error loading class [com.embarq.tnt.datafeed.retrieval.CellmaniaBilledFileRetrievalService] for bean with name 'cellmaniaBilledFileRetrievalService' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: problem with class file or dependent class; nested exception is java.lang.ClassFormatError: Incompatible magic value 2082299038 in class file com/embarq/tnt/datafeed/retrieval/CellmaniaBilledFileRetrievalService
Caused by: 
java.lang.ClassFormatError: Incompatible magic value 2082299038 in class file com/embarq/tnt/datafeed/retrieval/CellmaniaBilledFileRetrievalService
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1817)

I then go to Project -> Clean and then try again and it goes away. This is happening on and off intermittently and with different files all the time - so it is not with one particular class file.
I am using Eclipse 3.3 and Jdk 1.6 - has anyone come across this before? I have googled this error too and there is no meaningful solution which I can relate to.

Any ideas/help will be much appreciated in getting to the root of this problem. As I am able to temporarily get rid of it by rebuilding my project however it keeps reappearing several times a day.

Thanks.