Problems running Tomcat in xampp 1.7.4

[gingasteve]

I have installed XAMPP 1.7.4 on Windows XP. I can start the XAMPP control panel and start the Apache and MySql modules. However, when I run catalina.bat to start Tomcat, I get the following error ...

[XAMPP]: Searching JDK HOME with reg query ...

! REG.EXE VERSION 3.0

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit
CurrentVersion REG_SZ 1.5

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit\1.5
JavaHome REG_SZ C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_14
MicroVersion REG_SZ 0

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit\1.5.0_14
JavaHome REG_SZ C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_14
MicroVersion REG_SZ 0

[XAMPP]: Seems fine!
[XAMPP]: Using C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_14

C:\xampp\tomcat
Using CATALINA_BASE: "C:\xampp\tomcat"
Using CATALINA_HOME: "C:\xampp\tomcat"
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "C:\xampp\tomcat\temp"
Using JRE_HOME: "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_14"
Using CLASSPATH: "C:\xampp\tomcat\bin\bootstrap.jar;C:\xampp\tomcat\bin\tomcat-juli.jar"
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)

Any suggestions as to how I can fix this problem?

Thanks

[Sharley]

Lots of 1.7.4 issues here including the mention of your own issue at item 9
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=44327

This link may be of interest:
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=44313

[gingasteve]

Thanks for the reply. I'm new to xampp. Could you suggest a previous version that works better straight out of the box?

[Sharley]

Thanks for the reply. I'm new to xampp. Could you suggest a previous version that works better straight out of the box?

The previous 1.7.3 version has been noted as being quite stable now and has all the bells and whistles now missing in the 1.7.4 version.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP Windows/

Make sure that you do a clean uninstall of 1.7.4 first so that no residue is left.
viewtopic.php?p=174105#p174105

[gingasteve]

Downloaded 1.7.3 and the Tomcat extension and all is well. Many thanks for your advice.

Just need to work with the Agilefant team now to coax their web application to install!