Incompatible Class Change Error

[crmayer]

I was wondering if somebody could explain to me what would cause this error?
java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError

I did get it fixed by checking the problem class out of our CVS, adding a return and then checking it back in. But, I am not sure I understand what this error means or what would cause it.
To my best knowledge, it has something to do with class versions or something along those lines.
I am just looking for an explaination on this error and what might cause it.

Thanks in advance.
Chris

 

[snitin78]

See the super class for IncompatibleClassChangeError (

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/LinkageError.html),

that says "Subclasses of LinkageError indicate that a class has some dependency on another class; however, the latter class has incompatibly changed after the compilation of the former class.".

Is this true in your case?

 

[Diancecht]

I think it's very difficult to say but I get you're checking out compiled classes? Maybe someone checked in a class compiled with another version of the compiler ...

Cheers,
Dian