re: Tomcat 9 Java version required

[Taylor, Larry]

Hi ,

I downloaded and configured Tomcat 9  - what version of Java does this version 
require?

I have installed:
java version "1.7.0_95"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (rhel-2.6.4.0.el6_7-x86_64 u95-b00)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.95-b01, mixed mode)



With:



JRE_HOME=/usr/mware/jdk1.7.0_17/jre



My OS is:  Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago) 64bit

On startup.sh  now getting:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: 
org/apache/catalina/startup/Bootstrap : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:791)
        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$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356)
        at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:482)

thanks for any information.
________________________________
Larry Taylor