Problemas Com O Tomcat 5.5

Pessoal é o seguinte qdo vou rodar um servlet de teste da este seguinte erro:
HTTP Status 500 -

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: Error allocating a servlet instance
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:870)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

root cause

java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1847)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:873)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1326)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1205)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:870)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.23 logs.


Alguem pode ajudar???