Why am I getting the following error when running Google App from eclipse?

Question

I did a search and found QuickTip: VerifyError with jdk 7:

If you are struggling with the following kind of error

java.lang.VerifyEr

Answer 1

I had similar problem when deploying my GWT app in GAE and I was using JDK 7. Switching the project to JDK 6 solved that issue (I forgot that at this time only JDK 5 and 6 is supported by GAE).