I am trying to run a very simple Java webapp on a Jetty web server (v9.0).
Using maven, I built and created war, and as you can see in the manifest file, I used Java 1.6u43 to compile on OS X
Contents META-INF / MANIFEST.MF
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Archiver-Version: Plexus Archiver
Created-By: Apache Maven
Built-By: irraju
Build-Jdk: 1.6.0_43
I am running Jetty on Ubuntu, and as you can see, I have a slightly higher version of java 1.6.0_45. If java is backward compatible, my java application should work on the marina, but it does not work with an unsupported minor version
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java version "1.6.0_45"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_45-b06)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 20.45-b01, mixed mode, sharing)
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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/eclipse/jetty/start/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
Could not find the main class: org.eclipse.jetty.start.Main. Program will exit.
, Java 1,7 JVM 1.6 *. , , ENV 1,6 *, ENV JVM.
Tomcat, java 1.6.0_45, . - ?