java - Why is Ant giving me a Unsupported major.minor version error

Thursday 24 March 2016

I'm running this target in Ant.

    description="compile the source " >

It's giving me this error.


C:\Users\..\workspace\..\build.xml:21: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: 
    com/sun/tools/javac/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

Here are the versions:

Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.2

JDK version is JDK 1.7.0

Here's my Compiler settings in Eclipse.

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Please help me resolve it.

Answer

The runtime jre was set to jre 6 instead of jre 7 in the build configuration window.

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