另一种可能出现此错误的情况是Emma Code Coverage。

这发生在将Object分配给接口时。我猜这与对象被检测和不再二进制兼容有关。

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3178921&group_id=177969&atid=883351

幸运的是，这个问题在Cobertura中没有发生，所以我在pom.xml的报告插件中添加了Cobertura -maven-plugin

请检查你的代码是否由两个具有相同类名和包定义的模块项目组成。例如，如果有人使用复制粘贴来创建基于先前实现的接口的新实现，就会发生这种情况。

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！

I have also discovered that, when using JNI, invoking a Java method from C++, if you pass parameters to the invoked Java method in the wrong order, you will get this error when you attempt to use the parameters inside the called method (because they won't be the right type). I was initially taken aback that JNI does not do this checking for you as part of the class signature checking when you invoke the method, but I assume they don't do this kind of checking because you may be passing polymorphic parameters and they have to assume you know what you are doing.

示例c++ JNI代码:

void invokeFooDoSomething() {
    jobject javaFred = FredFactory::getFred(); // Get a Fred jobject
    jobject javaFoo = FooFactory::getFoo(); // Get a Foo jobject
    jobject javaBar = FooFactory::getBar(); // Get a Bar jobject
    jmethodID methodID = getDoSomethingMethodId() // Get the JNI Method ID


    jniEnv->CallVoidMethod(javaFoo,
                           methodID,
                           javaFred, // Woops!  I switched the Fred and Bar parameters!
                           javaBar);

    // << Insert error handling code here to discover the JNI Exception >>
    //  ... This is where the IncompatibleClassChangeError will show up.
}

Java代码示例:

class Bar { ... }

class Fred {
    public int size() { ... }
} 

class Foo {
    public void doSomething(Fred aFred, Bar anotherObject) {
        if (name.size() > 0) { // Will throw a cryptic java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError
            // Do some stuff...
        }
    }
}

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。

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.