startup.bat and shutdown.bat not working.

[mithun gooty]

Recently i downloaded tamcat-6.0, when i run startup.bat and shutdown.bat scripts some exceptions are thrown. Following is the stacktrace when i run
shutdown.bat script, i dont see any stacktrace when i run startup.bat.
Please help.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/apache/catalina/startup/Bootstrap (Unsupported major.minor version9.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClassSecureClassLoader.java:123)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)


Thank you.

[Ben Souther]

It looks like you're using an older JVM to run Tomcat.
Make sure you look at the requirements posted on the Tomcat site for the version you're using.

If you have the correct JVM on your machine, you'll need to make sure that Tomcat is using it.

How have you intalled Tomcat (the .exe version or the .zip version)?

[Jesper de Jong]

mithun gm, please check your private messages. You can see them by clicking "My Profile" at the top right of the page.

For Tomcat 6.0, you need Java 5 or newer. Which version of Java are you using?
[ August 07, 2007: Message edited by: Jesper Young ]