Hi…
I am upgrading (in Test) from DSpace 1.6.2 to DSpace 1.7.1. Everything has worked perfectly until I came to the step:
/dspace/bin/dspace index-init
When I try to execute that, I get:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:268)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
I can’t figure this out. All of the Class paths seem fine. Anyone have any suggestions?
George Kozak
Digital Library Specialist
Cornell University Library Information Technologies (CUL-IT)
501 Olin Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
You are using an old version of Java; older than the version that the code was compiled under.
Ralph
Thank you, Ralph:
That led me to my problem. I have Jdk 1.6.0 installed, but my server has jdk 1.5 installed as the default (and our IT group won’t allow me to replace it).
My paths were such that when I tried to execute java, it was going to the old one instead of the newer one.
I will fix that. Thanks, again!
George Kozak
Digital Library Specialist
Cornell University Library Information Technologies (CUL-IT)
501 Olin Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853