Hello All, When i'm running configurator executable in the system, I'm getting the bad magic number error and it it coming out, Could some body help me out as how to solve this problem. The error details are as follows:

Starting Configurator run [Date : Wed Aug 1 08:43:59 EDT 2007]
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Found executable /opt/java1.4/bin/java
Found executable /usr/bin/dirname
Executing the java code

INTERNAL com.aol.revenue.brd.config.Main.main(Main.java:118) BRD configurator v 1.2 build 0025
Argument = /home/qa38/brd/apps/config/BRD.properties File exist and readable
Argument = PD_MF_PRICE_PLAN.xml.v94_r120 File exist and readable
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError: com/aol/revenue/brd/config/handler/pd_element_id/PD_ELEMENT_ID (Bad magic number)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:502)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:250)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:54)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:193)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:186)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:299)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:265)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:255)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:315)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:140)
at com.aol.revenue.brd.config.handler.HandlerService.createHandlerForElement(HandlerService.java:90)
at com.aol.revenue.brd.config.handler.HandlerService.getConfigHandle(HandlerService.java:40)
at com.aol.revenue.brd.config.Main.processXMLData(Main.java:92)
at com.aol.revenue.brd.config.Main.main(Main.java:138)
Configurator return code: 1
ERROR*** Configurator error

The java installation details on my machine are as follow:

java version "1.4.1.01"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1.01-030304-15:40)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.4.1 1.4.1.01-030304-17:08-PA_RISC2.0 PA2.0, mixed mode)

--Thanks
Subramanya

Perhaps you are using teh wrong version of Java for the application?

Magic Number, sounds like some sort of prefix in the class file used to identify something, probably a library or JVM version.

Just a random guess, could be totally wrong, but I would check I had the right versions of libraries and JVM's

*shrugs*
G

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The magic number is always CAFE BABE in hexadecimal. This does not vary between Java versions. If you had the wrong version of Java, you would get a very specific message telling you that. Therefore, you can discount Java version as the reason for your problem.

Here are some things that might be wrong: -

[ August 02, 2007: Message edited by: Peter Chase ]

If this is happening to java programmers that use modules, then you must read the binary .class module file.

Example:

Instead of this:

You have to write this:

 
The .class file in intellij is normally located in \out\production\ package in the root module.

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