UnsupportedClassVersionError

[Ved Antani]

My Tomcat 3.2 was working perfectly but this morning without any changes,its showing the following error.
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javax.servlet.ServletException: sun/tools/javac/Main (Unsupported major.minor version 48.0)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:377)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:368)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:261)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:356)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:720)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:666)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:166)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:403)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Root cause:
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: sun/tools/javac/Main (Unsupported major.minor version 48.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.SunJavaCompiler.compile(SunJavaCompiler.java:128)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:238)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.doLoadJSP(JspServlet.java:440)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JasperLoader12.loadJSP(JasperLoader12.java:146)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.loadJSP(JspServlet.java:411)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.loadIfNecessary(JspServlet.java:152)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.java:164)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:296)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:369)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:368)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:261)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:356)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:720)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:666)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:166)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:403)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
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I have not made any change, please help me soon
Ved

[Carl Trusiak]

You must of made a change somewhere. Did you add upgrade something or change a jar? Did you change your JAVA_HOME setting? This exception usually happens when you use classes compiled by one major version (Say 1.4) and try to run them with a different Previous version (Say 1.3)