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.

In my case, I ran into this error this way. pom.xml of my project defined two dependencies A and B. And both A and B defined dependency on same artifact (call it C) but different versions of it (C.1 and C.2). When this happens, for each class in C maven can only select one version of the class from the two versions (while building an uber-jar). It will select the "nearest" version based on its dependency mediation rules and will output a warning "We have a duplicate class..." If a method/class signature changes between the versions, it can cause a java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError exception if the incorrect version is used at runtime.

高级:如果A必须使用C的v1, B必须使用C的v2，那么我们必须在A和B的poms中重新定位C，以避免类冲突(我们有一个重复类警告)，当构建依赖于A和B的最终项目时。

如果你使用scala和sbt和scala-logging作为依赖项，那么这可能会发生，因为scala-logging的早期版本的名称是scala-logging-api.因此，本质上依赖项解析不会发生，因为不同的名称会导致启动scala应用程序时的运行时错误。

在我的例子中:

我有一个项目包含几个模块，包括应用程序，测试，integrationTest 我在app模块中创建了OneElementCache。 然后，我在测试模块中创建了一个文件Cache，该文件包含了一些用于在测试中创建OneElementCache的帮助。 到目前为止，一切都很完美(测试和集成测试都通过了)。 之后，我在app模块中创建了一个文件缓存。 在运行integrationTest时得到:

Caused by: java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: 
    class app.cache.CacheImpl can not implement app.cache.Cache, because it is not an interface (app.cache.Cache is in unnamed module of loader 'app')

原因是不同模块(app/test)的命名冲突。在测试中更改文件名就可以了。

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

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.