I am trying to rebuild my applications and all of a sudden, I am getting the following error:
Our backend application (from third party has been updated) It is using Java 11. My tomcat servers are running version 7.34 of tomcat and version 1.7.0_45. I have rebuilt and deploy a large number of our Apps; but there are about 4 with the following error: SEVERE: Unable to process Jar entry [module-info.class] from Jar [jar:file:/G:/Tomcat7/temp/44-bannertools/WEB-INF/lib/jaxb-api-2.3.0.jar!/] for SEVERE: Unable to process Jar entry [module-info.class] from Jar [jar:file:/G:/Tomcat7/temp/44-bannertools/WEB-INF/lib/jaxb-api-2.3.0.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:133) at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ConstantPool.<init>(ConstantPool.java:60) at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.readConstantPool(ClassParser.java:209) at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.parse(ClassParser.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsStream(ContextConfig.java:2104) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsJar(ContextConfig.java:1980) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsUrl(ContextConfig.java:1946) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotations(ContextConfig.java:1931) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1325) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:878) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:369) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5173) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:977) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1655) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) s org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassFormatException: Invalid byte tag in constant pool: 19 at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.Constant.readConstant(Constant.java:133) at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ConstantPool.<init>(ConstantPool.java:60) at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.readConstantPool(ClassParser.java:209) at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.parse(ClassParser.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsStream(ContextConfig.java:2104) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsJar(ContextConfig.java:1980) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsUrl(ContextConfig.java:1946) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotations(ContextConfig.java:1931) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1325) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:878) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:369) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5173) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:977) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1655) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) When I first tried this a couple of weeks ago... I needed up trying to upgrade Tomcat to the latest release of 7.0_94 Everything started to fall apart, the javax modules were failing, etc. I finally realized I was chasing my tail. Every time I got one thing working, two more broke. Restored everything back and went through the rebuild. I tried to copy the annotation_api.jar file from Tomcat 7.0_94 into tomcat 7.0_45 but nothing would deploy... I'm at a loss on what could be happening.... Any help would be appreciate any guidance.