Hello World Plugin - ClassFormatError : StackMapTable format error: bad class index

Hello Amit,

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Hello,
I am using Intellij 9.0.3 Ultimate Edition to develop my first
intellij plugin which just shows up a item in the Windows menu &
clicking it displays "Hello World". I followed the steps mentioned in
the tutorial
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/documentation/howto_03.html#Where to
Begin?. When I run the plugin I get the below error
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError: StackMapTable
format error: bad class index
at
com.intellij.openapi.application.PathManager.isIdeaHome(PathManager.ja
va:99)
at
com.intellij.openapi.application.PathManager.getHomePath(PathManager.j
ava:81)
at
com.intellij.openapi.application.PathManager.loadProperties(PathManage
r.java:309)
at
com.intellij.ide.ClassloaderUtil.initClassloader(ClassloaderUtil.java:
88)
at com.intellij.ide.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:39)
at com.intellij.ide.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:35)
at com.intellij.idea.Main.main(Main.java:54)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.j
ava:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccess
orImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at
com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:115)
Has anyone faced such an issue ? I think my Intellij Plugin SDK
configuration is an issue but I am not able to figure out. I have
added three jar files named "openapi.jar, annotations.jar and rt.jar"
in the SDK's classpath.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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Thanks for the reply. The issue is with the jdk version I was using. I was compiling and running with "jdk1.6.0_ea". After upgrading to jdk 1.6.21 the below issue got resolved. Thanks to Mihai-Claudiu Toader who helped me to resolve the issue.

Regards,
Amit.