"Unsupported major.minor version 52.0" Error When Starting ORDS 17.4 Using JDK 7 (Doc ID 2342501.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 09, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

Starting ORDS 17.4 or doing simple java commands using JDK 7 such as:

java -jar ords.war version

Fail with the following error stack:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: oracle/dbtools/jarcl/Entrypoint : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:482)
[oracle@cos-tools-lnx1 tmp]$ java -jar ords312.war version

Changes

Attempting to configure / install / run ORDS 17.4 using JDK 7.

This worked with ORDS 3.0.X versions.

Cause

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