Thread: HELP ME!!- Starting to use java and problems with that damned jdk-

Hello folks, I am completely new to java and I don't know anything about programming.
I have started with the application "HelloWorldApp" and I have bypassed the problem that javac was not a recognized command.
Now I have HelloWorld App.class, but when I try to run it on the prompt it says:

C:\Users\Acer\Desktop>java HelloWorldApp
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: HelloWorldApp
: Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknow n Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(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)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(Unkno wn Source)

I have on my pc both jdk1.8.0 and jdk1.7.0. I changed the classhpath on the control panel to both jdk1.7.0 and 1.8.0 but the problem continues. I run windows 7, 64 bit system. Please help me.

Alex

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I've never seen your error before, so I Googled it and found this. It might not fit your problem exactly, so you should continue looking until you find a path to fix your specific problem that you think will work.

Originally Posted by Blackberry 101

C:\Users\Acer\Desktop>java HelloWorldApp
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: HelloWorldApp
: Unsupported major.minor version 52.0

Norm's right that the class file was created using a younger version (i.e., released more recently) of Java than the JRE that is being used to execute it. More precisely, "version 52.0" refers to Java 8, i.e., the Java source file was compiled using JDK 8 (1.8). (See Java class file - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under the "General layout" section, for byte offsets 6 and 7.) When you ran "java HelloWorldApp", "java" must have been referring to Java 7's java.exe, hence the mismatch.

The most direct way to fix this is to uninstall Java 7. If for whatever reason this is not an option, and since as quoted above you're executing the class file via command line by running "java" directly, then you'll need to change Windows' PATH environment variable. See PATH and CLASSPATH (The Java™ Tutorials > Essential Classes > The Platform Environment).

Take care to check that your PATH environment variable does not contain paths to both Java 7's and Java 8's "bin" folder. It should contain the path to just 1 version so that when you run "javac" and "java", they both use the corresponding .exe files from the same JDK version.

Thank so much guys, I've been busy and I haven't had the time to try.
I will check it now and let you know.
Yes, I have done a mess with the two version of jdk installed.

--- Update ---

Yeah, it worked.
It was a problem of jdk versions against each other.
I just uninstalled jdk 7 and set the variable path to the latest version and it worked.
Thanks a lot to everybody and good luck.