I am not sure i am doing anything wrong with this basic hello world program. Have no idea why does this throw errors.
I have saved the file as test.java.
public class test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello!");
}
/*public static void sop(String str) {
System.out.println(str);
}*/
}
When i compile it with javac test.java, it compiles successfully, but when i try to run it by using java test, it gives the following error:
C:\Users\admin\Desktop>java test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
The Java bin directory is added in System path. Would appreciate any pointers.
Java directories in the system path are as follows: