In Section VIII Annotation Type Evolution (Binary Compatibility)
Changing the Type of an Annotation Type Member

It is mentioned that:-

1) Attempting to read the annotation type using the revised interface will result in an AnnotationTypeMismatchException

2) Class files that invoke the accessor will fail at runtime with a NoSuchMethodError.

Not sure like if one can not read the annotation using the revised interface how come one can invoke the accessor leading to NoSuchMethodError.

In the attached test case:-
Reading the annotation using the revised interface is happening without AnnotationTypeMismatchException secondly while invoking the accessor ClassCastException is thrown instead of NoSuchMethodError

It is happening with Tiger-beta2 build 41
Tried on Solaris-9, not tried on other platforms.

How to reproduce:-
Untar the attached BinaryIncompatibilityTest6.tar
cd BinaryIncompatibilityTest6/Helper directory
compile the source files
execute SerializeAnnotation it will generate AnnotationTest file
copy A.class and AnnotationTest to BinaryIncompatibilityTest6 directory
cd to BinaryIncompatibilityTest6
compile the source files javac *.java
execute BinaryIncompatibilityTest6 file

In the output one can see the ClassCastException