java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError

一直以为是JDK编码问题， 部署环境jdk1.5 + linux， 就在部署环境上指定1.5编译出来的，报如下异常：
降版本编译， 还不行。
最后发现是把log4j.properties丢掉了，上传，OK了。
这个异常牛头不对马嘴的，很容易让人误以为是编译版本问题。

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:268)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
        at org.apache.log4j.helpers.Loader.loadClass(Loader.java:179)
        at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByClassName(OptionConverter.java:320)
        at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByKey(OptionConverter.java:121)
        at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:664)
        at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:647)
        at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:544)
        at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:440)
        at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:476)
        at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:471)
        at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:125)
        at org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:118)