Building a new development machine for building Java applications. One of the requirements to build java applications is the installation of development tools. Somewhere to writ and debug code. The choice is to use Red Hat CodeReady Studio.
During the initial install, came across the below error:
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/redhat/rhn/branding/strings/StringPackage : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
The solution turned out to be a fairly simple one.
My server had Java JDK 7 installed, but the minimum Java version required for Red Hat CodeReady Studio is JDK 8.
Once installed, I was able to then install Red Hat CodeReady Studio without any issues.
The installation guide for CodeReady Studio only talks about OpenJDK which RedHat recommends:
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