Java: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError – Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
Java: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError – Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
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On my current project we’ve spent the last day or so setting up an environment where we can deploy a couple of micro services to.
Although the machines are Windows based we’re deploying the application onto a vagrant managed VM since the production environment will be a flavour of Linux.
Initially I was getting quite confused about whether or not we were in the VM or not and ended up with this error when trying to run the compiled JAR:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/whatever/SomeService : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
Could not find the main class: com/whatever/SomeService. Program will exit.
These error means that you compiled the code with a higher JDK than the one you’re now trying to run it against.
Since I was accidentally trying to run the JAR against our Windows environment’s 1.6 JDK rather than the VM’s 1.7 JDK this is exactly what I was doing!
Muppet!
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