Exception: Http status 500

[shalaka wadekar]

Hi All,

I am using Apache Tomcat 5.5
I get the following error when I try to load the Tomcat homepage using http://localhost/
Default port is set to 80.

javax.servlet.ServletException: org/apache/jsp/index_jsp (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:272)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

I was working on this same Tomcat setup a couple of months back... & it was working fine
Tomcat homepage was loading. I have not made any changes to the tomcat configuration since then. I had set some classpath for another application some time back but I removed that from the enviroment variables. Now in the classpath there are only things that Tomcat would need.
Am I missing something? Kindly help on this.

[Rene Larsen]

What version of java does Tomcat run with??

"Unsupported major.minor version 49.0" means that some code is compiled with java 1.5, and Tomcat try to run it with a java version less then 1.5
[ August 03, 2008: Message edited by: Rene Larsen ]

[shalaka wadekar]

Hi,

Thanks for the response!
I guess I am aware of this cause. I am using jdk1.4. What do you suggest I should do now? It was working fine with the same version earlier. How come suddenly it started giving out this error?

Regards,
Shalaka

[Muhammad Saifuddin]

update your jdk with 5 to make it run.

[Muhammad Saifuddin]

or for the next it will be good if you do check the Java class file is compiled into which version.

for example you have "MyClass.class" then use this simple to know..

javap -verbose MyClass

The output.

SourceFile: "MyClass.java"
minor version: 0
major version: 49

to check the class version use this source.