Error: "Bad version number in .class file" with TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Director(PD) Governance Agent for Business Works(BW).

Error: "Bad version number in .class file" with TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Director(PD) Governance Agent for Business Works(BW).

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Article ID: KB0087727

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TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Director -
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Description

Resolution:

Description
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The following error is observed in the BW engine log file during startup after the PD Governance Agent for BW has been configured using TCT:
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com.tibco.governance.agent.GovernanceAgentException: Caught an exception trying to prepare the Governance Agent logger.
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Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
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This error is seen if bwengine.tra is using JRE1.5.0.

Resolution
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The issue can be resolved by upgrading the JRE version referred to in the bwengine.tra file to JRE1.6.0 . This can done Using the traUpgradeManager tool available in TRA_HOME\bin folder.

Issue/Introduction

Error: "Bad version number in .class file" with TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Director(PD) Governance Agent for Business Works(BW).