SAP Message SAI_MAPPING208 - Incompatible class versions (linkage error)

Diagnosis
A linkage error occurred while loading the class &V1& (&V2&, &V3&, &V4&
).
This error occurs if the Java mapping accesses an archive that had adifferent (incompatible) version during compilation to the runtimeversion.

Procedure
If this error occurs while executing a message mapping, generate themessage mapping again in the Integration Repository. Another error causemight be that the patch statuses of the Integration Repository and theintegration runtime are incompatible.
If the error occurs during a Java mapping, check whether the archivesare compatible with the Java sources. Are the sources distributed amongmultiple archives which have statuses that are not compatible with eachother?