I have a web application that deploys perfectly fine on my local machine's tomcat(8.0.20). However, when I put it into the qa environment (tomcat - 8.0.20), it kept on giving me the IncompatibleClassChangeError and it was complaining that I was extending on an interface. This interface was changed to an abstract class. And I compiled the parent and child classes and still I kept on getting the same issue. Finally, I wanted to debug, so, I changed the version on the parent to x.0.1-SNAPSHOT and then compiled everything and now it is working. If someone is still hitting the problem after following the answers given here, please make sure the versions in your pom.xml are also correct. Change the versions to see if that works. If so, then fix the version problem.

I have a web application that deploys perfectly fine on my local machine's tomcat(8.0.20). However, when I put it into the qa environment (tomcat - 8.0.20), it kept on giving me the IncompatibleClassChangeError and it was complaining that I was extending on an interface. This interface was changed to an abstract class. And I compiled the parent and child classes and still I kept on getting the same issue. Finally, I wanted to debug, so, I changed the version on the parent to x.0.1-SNAPSHOT and then compiled everything and now it is working. If someone is still hitting the problem after following the answers given here, please make sure the versions in your pom.xml are also correct. Change the versions to see if that works. If so, then fix the version problem.

这意味着您已经对库进行了一些不兼容的二进制更改，而无需重新编译客户端代码。Java语言规范§13详细描述了所有这些更改，最突出的是将非静态的非私有字段/方法更改为静态或反之亦然。

根据新的库重新编译客户端代码，应该就可以开始了。

更新:如果你发布了一个公共库，你应该尽可能避免做出不兼容的二进制更改，以保持所谓的“二进制向后兼容性”。单独更新依赖jar在理想情况下不会破坏应用程序或构建。如果你不得不打破二进制向后兼容性，建议增加主版本号(例如从1.x。Y到2.0.0)，然后发布更改。

While these answers are all correct, resolving the problem is often more difficult. It's generally the result of two mildly different versions of the same dependency on the classpath, and is almost always caused by either a different superclass than was originally compiled against being on the classpath or some import of the transitive closure being different, but generally at class instantiation and constructor invocation. (After successful class loading and ctor invocation, you'll get NoSuchMethodException or whatnot.)

如果这种行为看起来是随机的，那么它很可能是多线程程序类根据最先遇到的代码加载不同的传递依赖项的结果。

要解决这些问题，请尝试使用-verbose作为参数启动VM，然后查看异常发生时正在加载的类。你应该会看到一些令人惊讶的信息。例如，拥有相同依赖项的多个副本，以及您从未预料到的版本，或者如果您知道它们被包括在内，您就不会接受这些版本。

用Maven解决重复的jar最好是结合Maven下的Maven - Dependency - Plugin和Maven -enforcer- Plugin(或SBT的Dependency Graph Plugin)，然后将这些jar添加到顶级POM的一部分或作为SBT中的导入依赖元素(以删除这些依赖)。

好运！

我在与玻璃鱼的战争中反复部署时遇到过这个问题。我的班级结构是这样的，

public interface A{
}

public class AImpl implements A{
}

它被改成了

public abstract class A{
}

public class AImpl extends A{
}

在停止并重新启动域之后，结果很好。 我用的是glassfish 3.1.43

如果这是此错误可能发生的记录，则:

我刚刚在WAS(8.5.0.1)上得到了这个错误，在CXF(2.6.0)加载spring (3.1.1_release)配置期间，BeanInstantiationException卷起一个CXF ExtensionException，卷起一个IncompatibleClassChangeError。下面的代码片段显示了堆栈跟踪的要点:

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.SpringBus]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionException
            at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:162)
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:76)
            at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:990)
            ... 116 more
Caused by: org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionException
            at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.Extension.tryClass(Extension.java:167)
            at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.Extension.getClassObject(Extension.java:179)
            at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionManagerImpl.activateAllByType(ExtensionManagerImpl.java:138)
            at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.ExtensionManagerBus.<init>(ExtensionManagerBus.java:131)
            [etc...]
            at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:147)
            ... 118 more

Caused by: java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: 
org.apache.neethi.AssertionBuilderFactory
            at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassImpl(Native Method)
            at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:284)
            [etc...]
            at com.ibm.ws.classloader.CompoundClassLoader.loadClass(CompoundClassLoader.java:586)
            at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:658)
            at org.apache.cxf.bus.extension.Extension.tryClass(Extension.java:163)
            ... 128 more

在这种情况下，解决方案是改变war文件中模块的类路径顺序。也就是说，在WAS控制台中打开战争应用程序，并选择客户端模块。在模块配置中，将类加载设置为“parent last”。

在WAS控制台中可以找到:

应用程序->应用程序类型-> WebSphere企业应用程序 单击代表应用程序的链接(war) 点击“模块”区域下的“模块管理” 单击底层模块的链接 将“类装入器顺序”更改为“(父类最后)”。