Infinispan 7 artifacts are not compatible with JDK 1.6

[ofer.baranes]

Hi There, according to the getting statrted document, Infinispan 7 artifacts should be compatible with jdk 1.6,

However they are not.

please see below:

With JDK 1.6:

d:\_programing\infinispan\infinispan-7.0.0.Alpha4-bin>c:\oracle\Middleware\jdk16

0_11\bin\java.exe -version

java version "1.6.0_11"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_11-b03)

Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 11.0-b16, mixed mode)

d:\_programing\infinispan\infinispan-7.0.0.Alpha4-bin>c:\oracle\Middleware\jdk160_11\bin\java.exe -classpath .\infinispan-core.jar org.infinispan.Version

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/infinispan/Version : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)

        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)

        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)

        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:56)

        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)

        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)

        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)

Could not find the main class: org.infinispan.Version. 

With JDK 1.7:

d:\_programing\infinispan\infinispan-7.0.0.Alpha4-bin>java.exe -version

java version "1.7.0_25"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_25-b16)

Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode, sharing)

d:\_programing\infinispan\infinispan-7.0.0.Alpha4-bin>java.exe -classpath .\infinispan-core.jar org.infinispan.Version

Infinispan

Version:        7.0.0.Alpha4

Codename:       Infinium

History:        (see https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/ISPN for details)

Thanks

Ofer

[wdfink]

Where do you download the infinispan bits?

I'm not sure whether Ispn7 is still able to run on Java6

[rvansa]

The Getting Started Guide was not actualized, thanks for noting.

[ISPN-4335] Getting started guide says that Infinispan 7 can run on Java 6 - JBoss Issue Tracker