what is minimum version of jre to use java2word api

Question

I am using API java2word-3.1.jar to create doc file. it is working good in JRE 1.5+ version. but I want to use it in JRE1.4.

could you please tell me any solution.

currently getting below error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: **word/api/interfaces/IDocument (Unsupported major.minor version 50.0)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)**

thanks and regards Shankar

Answer 1

Either recompile the package yourself, if it will compile under 1.4, or else upgrade your Java to something that hasn't been unsupported since October 30th, 2008.

what is minimum version of jre to use java2word api

I don't know why you're asking that, when you've already established conclusively that it's 1.5.