Endevor Web Service: ClassFormatException: Invalid byte tag in constant pool: 15

Products

• Endevor
• Endevor - ECLIPSE Plugin

Issue/Introduction

After installing Endevor Web Services and start Tomcat, WSTOMSTC shows the following error:

SEVERE: Error deploying web application directory endevor
org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassFormatException: Invalid byte tag in constant pool: 15

 

Environment

Release : 18.0

Component : CA Endevor Software Change Manager

Resolution

The exception is caused by installing Endevor Web Services using Tomcat 7,  if annotation scanning is enabled (metadata-complete="true" in web.xml) there are some issues due to BCEL (not able to process the new Java 8 byte codes). 

Solution:

Use Tomcat 8 and higher to install Endevor Web Service. 

Additional Information

Note: Endevor Web Services supports only Tomcat versions 8 and higher

See Endevor Web Services Prerequisites