i get the following error message any time i try to hot deploy or undelpoy a component. either ear or war. i also get this when trying to deploy more than 5 components on a server startup.

any help would be greatly appreciated, as i have a product that needs to be deployed ASAP.

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MESSAGE
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org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Could not deploy file:/usr/local/JBoss-2.4.6_Tomcat-4.0.3/jboss/tmp/deploy/Default/utilities.ear, Cause: java.lang.RuntimeException: unexpected: java.lang.ClassFormatError: org/jboss/web/WebServiceMBean$Proxy (Illegal constant pool type)
at org.jboss.ejb.ContainerFactory.deploy(ContainerFactory.java:404)
at org.jboss.ejb.ContainerFactory.deploy(ContainerFactory.java:307)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
at org.jboss.deployment.J2eeDeployer.startModules(J2eeDeployer.java:487)
at org.jboss.deployment.J2eeDeployer.startApplication(J2eeDeployer.java:459)
at org.jboss.deployment.J2eeDeployer.deploy(J2eeDeployer.java:190)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
at org.jboss.deployment.AutoDeployer.deploy(AutoDeployer.java:395)
at org.jboss.deployment.AutoDeployer.run(AutoDeployer.java:233)
at org.jboss.deployment.AutoDeployer.startService(AutoDeployer.java:371)
at org.jboss.util.ServiceMBeanSupport.start(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:103)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
at org.jboss.configuration.ConfigurationService$ServiceProxy.invoke(ConfigurationService.java:967)
at $Proxy0.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.util.ServiceControl.start(ServiceControl.java:79)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
at org.jboss.Main.(Main.java:208)
at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:110)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.jboss.Main.main(Main.java:106)