When start tomcat7 whith custom installation follow error appears in catalina.out
25/07/2012 05:49:22 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester startElement
GRAVE: Begin event threw error
java.lang.VerifyError: class org.terracotta.modules.tomcat.tomcat_5_5.SessionValve55 overrides final method start.()V
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:632)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:616)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:466)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java)
at org.terracotta.modules.tomcat.tomcat_5_5.TerracottaPipeline.<init>(TerracottaPipeline.java:17)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.<init>(ContainerBase.java:239)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.<init>(StandardEngine.java:67)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.ObjectCreateRule.begin(ObjectCreateRule.java:145)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java:1276)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:501)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1363)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2755)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:511)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:808)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:119)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1205)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1537)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:601)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:649)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:281)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:450)
I alredy install tim-tomcat-7.0 and run with jdk1.6
We don't support Tomcat 7 in custom mode actually hence the error. You would have to switch to express mode (which is much robust and faster). The tim-tomcat-7 there is just fitting code pattern rather than real support.
In general, if your objects are POJO, you no longer need to instrumented them. In express mode, to store anything in clustered session, the objects (attributes) must be serializable.
You'll find out if something in your session isn't serializable since you'll be rewarded with a NotSerializableException (although it will most certainly be wrapped inside some type of RuntimeException)