Copied Tomcat 6 webapp working fine on one server but not another

I am running tomcat 6, 64 bit on a Windows 7 64 bit platform. I copied my web application (entire folder - it is called cuba4remedy) to a tomcat 6 64 bit installation on a different machine. this one running Windows 2008 standard 64 bit.

The servlet was working fine on my Windows 7 development machine but when I run on the new machine I see this error in the Catalinaxxx.log :-

SEVERE: Null component Catalina:type=JspMonitor,name=jsp,WebModule=//localhost/cuba4remedy,J2EEApplication=none,J2EEServer=none

I don't really understand why I am getting this error. Any ideas anyone?

One more point might be relevant. I compiled on my dev machine using Javac version 1.7. On the machine I copied to only the Java runtime is installed - that is Java version 1.6.

I would certainly try recompiling with the command line option -target 6

See the javac options.

Bill

William Brogden wrote:I would certainly try recompiling with the command line option -target 6

See the javac options.

Bill

I did try -target 1.6 but it errored. It was quite simple for me to download the v1.6 sdk so I did that and recompiled and it fixed the problem. I was a bit surprised though because I was not using any v1.7 features as far as I was aware.

Compiled classes get labeled with the Java version they are compiled for. Java 6 won't run a class compiled for 7 due to this label, not the features.

Bill

William Brogden wrote:Compiled classes get labeled with the Java version they are compiled for. Java 6 won't run a class compiled for 7 due to this label, not the features.

Bill

The trouble is customers are likely to have java jvm 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 and possibly 1.7. So for maximum compatibility and least deployment headaches I guess best to restrict yourself to only say 1.4 or 1.5 features?

See the Java version history at Wikipedia.

Versions 1.4 and 1.5 are no longer supported and 1.6 reaches end of life soon. As a consultant you should be letting customers know the dangers of out of date java and helping them update.

Bill