ClassCastException when trying to run topology on a remote Nimbus server

[Yovav Waichman]

Hi, 

I’m a developer using Storm in our production environment. 
When running my topology locally, everything works fine. 
However, when trying to run storm with my topology on a remote Nimbus server, I 
get the following exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
        at 
backtype.storm.topology.TopologyBuilder.createTopology(TopologyBuilder.java:106)
        at com.jivesoftware.playbox.engine.Main.main(Main.java:77)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: 
org.apache.storm.serialization.GzipThriftSerializationDelegate cannot be cast 
to backtype.storm.serialization.SerializationDelegate
        at backtype.storm.utils.Utils.getSerializationDelegate(Utils.java:432)
        at backtype.storm.utils.Utils.<clinit>(Utils.java:72)
        ... 2 more


My server has Strom version 1.1.0 installed and my topology is using storm-core 
0.9.4 version. 
It seems that there’s a conflict between the versions, 
GzipThriftSerializationDelegate from package org.apache.storm.serialization is 
being cast to backtype.storm.serialization.SerializationDelegate instead of 
being cast to 
org.apache.storm.serialization.SerializationDelegate. 

I would appreciate your help on that, 

Thanks in advance,
Yovav