Bug 53161

Summary: Need better error message for annotation scanning errors
Product: Tomcat 7 Reporter: Mark Thomas <markt>
Component: CatalinaAssignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: trunk   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Mark Thomas 2012-04-29 16:27:47 UTC
See this question on SO:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10373077/tomcat-7-severe-a-child-container-failed-during-start

There is a problem scanning a class but no info on which one. It could be fault input of BCEL could need updating for a newer Java version. If the error message identified the class triggering the problem, it could be analysed.

A better error message is required that names the class having the problem.
Comment 1 Mark Thomas 2012-05-28 21:46:29 UTC
Fixed in trunk and 7.0.x and will be included in 7.0.28 onwards.