E-WL: PIA Logs Show Errors - "JVMCFRE199E bad major version 55.0 of class=org/apache/ws/security/WSSecurityEngine, the maximum supported major version is 52.0;" (Doc ID 2960134.1)

Last updated on JULY 10, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

The <PS_CFG_HOME>/webserv/<DOMAIN-NAME>/servers/PIA/logs/PIA_stdout.log shows errors like these:

<BEA-2162500> <Class, org.apache.ws.security.validate.SamlAssertionValidator, was compiled with an incompatible version of Java. Ensure that all the classes needed by the application have been compiled with a compatible java version. java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: JVMCFRE199E bad major version 55.0 of class="org"/apache/ws/security/validate/SamlAssertionValidator, the maximum supported major version is 52.0; offset=6
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: JVMCFRE199E bad major version 55.0 of class="org"/apache/ws/security/validate/SamlAssertionValidator, the maximum supported major version is 52.0; offset=6
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassImpl(Native Method)

Changes

 Upgrade to PeopleTools 8.60 or higher from an older PeopleTools release that uses JDK 8.

Cause

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