It’s pretty basic. I am running a java web application and I include the apsoe word and power point jar files inside a WAR file. I stop tomcat, copy the WAR file into the Tomcat/webapps folder, start tomcat and when I view the tomcat logs – with nothing more than starting tomcat – here is what it says….
05-Apr-2019 08:19:55.459 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsJar Unable to process Jar entry [META-INF/versions/9/module-info.class] from Jar [jar:file:/C:/Program%20Files/Apache%20Software%20Foundation/Tomcat%208.0/webapps/RiskRadar/WEB-INF/lib/aspose-words-19.3-jdk17.jar!/] for annotations
org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassFormatException: Invalid byte tag in constant pool: 19
at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.Constant.readConstant(Constant.java:97)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ConstantPool.(ConstantPool.java:55)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.readConstantPool(ClassParser.java:176)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.parse(ClassParser.java:85)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsStream(ContextConfig.java:2011)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsJar(ContextConfig.java:1961)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsUrl(ContextConfig.java:1936)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotations(ContextConfig.java:1897)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1149)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:771)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:305)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:95)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5080)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:725)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:701)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:945)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1798)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)