How can I use Scala with JDK 1.7? (Unsupported major.minor 52.0 Error)

Question

this "unsupported major.minor 52.0 version" error is driving me nuts.

How can I get scala to use jdk 1.7. My SBT project needs to be 1.7 and I cannot run sbt or scala unless I set my java_home to 1.8.

My google foo is not strong since there are so many results for this vague-keyword problem.

Do I need to install different version of scala? sbt?

Thanks,

Edit More details:

 $ java -version
java version "1.7.0_80"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_80-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.80-b11, mixed mode)

$ echo $JAVA_HOME
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_80.jdk/Contents/Home

$ sbt -sbt-version 0.13.16 ~jetty:start
[info] Loading project definition from /Users/dan/Projects/temp/ssltester/project
[info] Set current project to ssltester (in build file:/Users/dan/Projects/temp/ssltester/)
[info] starting server ...
[success] Total time: 0 s, completed Nov 7, 2017 4:35:49 PM
1. Waiting for source changes... (press enter to interrupt)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/eclipse/jetty/runner/Runner : 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)

[info] waiting for server to shut down...

build.sbt

name := "ssltester"

version := "1.0"

scalaVersion := "2.11.11"

resolvers += "Sonatype OSS Snapshots" at "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots"

libraryDependencies += "org.scala-lang.modules" %% "scala-xml" % "1.0.2"

libraryDependencies += "javax.servlet" % "javax.servlet-api" % "3.0.1" % "provided"

libraryDependencies += "org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder" % "http-builder" % "0.5.2"

enablePlugins(JettyPlugin)

./project/build.sbt

addSbtPlugin("com.earldouglas" % "xsbt-web-plugin" % "3.0.1")

Answer 1

Scala 2.12 requires a Java 8 JVM and library . You will either have to use a current version of Java or an outdated version of Scala.

Traits now compile to interface s with default methods, and Scala lambdas use the same encoding as Java 8 lambdas do. Java 8 lambdas are mostly a library feature and could be backported , but method implementations in interfaces are a backwards-incompatible change to the bytecode language.