Ubuntu
tomcat5.5 package

tomcat in intrepid no longer supports java5

Bug #283875 reported by Joe Barnett on 2008-10-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #264808: Package does not work with JDK 5. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	commons-daemon (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	tomcat5.5 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: tomcat5.5

Trying to run tomcat in Intrepid using the /etc/init.d script against java-1.5.0-sun JVM results in:
Cannot find daemon loader org/apache/commons/daemon/support/DaemonLoader

running the java command manually shows a little more detail:
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:620)
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$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:268)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)