almost sounds like you have to use the equivalent for a "<" like a &lquo; or some similar type marking in the proper xml file. Might look into it, even though nothing changed as you said.
-----Original Message----- From: Dwight Farris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:11 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: Application startup error - TOMCAT 5.0.28 / 1.5 Hello All, One of my webApps is throwing the following exception; java.lang.ClassFormatError: Illegal UTF8 string in constant pool in class file org/hibernate/hql/ast/ErrorCounter I have checked the UTF8 strings; nothing has changed and the app has been running without issue. Any ideas are greatly appreciated Dwight --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]