EJB – unsupported class version error

When trying to invoke an EJB created using NetBeans (using jdk1.7) from a client using the eclipse IDE (using JDK1.6), I received the following error –

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: stateless/TestEjbRemote : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
    at java.net.urlclassloader.defineClass(urlclassloader.java:283)
    at java.net.urlclassloader.access$000(urlclassloader.java:58)
    at java.net.urlclassloader$1.run(urlclassloader.java:197)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.urlclassloader.findClass(urlclassloader.java:190)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
    at com.sun.ejb.EJBUtils.getBusinessIntfClassLoader(EJBUtils.java:688)
    at com.sun.ejb.EJBUtils.loadGeneratedRemoteBusinessClasses(EJBUtils.java:463)
    at com.sun.ejb.EJBUtils.lookupRemote30BusinessObject(EJBUtils.java:414)
    at com.sun.ejb.containers.RemoteBusinessObjectFactory.getObjectInstance(RemoteBusinessObjectFactory.java:75)
    at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(NamingManager.java:304)
    at com.sun.enterprise.naming.impl.SerialContext.getObjectInstance(SerialContext.java:556)
    at com.sun.enterprise.naming.impl.SerialContext.lookup(SerialContext.java:514)
    at com.sun.enterprise.naming.impl.SerialContext.lookup(SerialContext.java:455)
    at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:392)
    at Main.main(Main.java:19)

Any solution to this problem?

Solution

Try to change the target JRE version to 1.6.0 in build configuration