On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Carlo de Wolf <cdewolf@redhat.com> wrote:

[carlo@palantir tmp]$ /opt/oracle/jdk1.8.0/bin/javac -target 1.8 HelloWorld.java
[carlo@palantir tmp]$ /opt/oracle/jdk1.7.0/bin/java HelloWorld
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: HelloWorld : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0

Crock... :-)

Yes my wording was bad, JDK8 supports all JDK7 constructs and more, not other way around.