[PLAY-FRAMEWORK] UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/typesafe/config/ConfigException : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
[PLAYFRAMEWORK] Using JRE for running java binary/application made of PLAY framework:: On production system its better not to use JDK as it has compiler on it. So only JAVA runtime installation should do the trick for running PLAY-FRAMEWORK based java application. Its basically REST service providing server. So lets see how it is done, code for symbolic link: $ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.8.0_ 91/ $ export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin $ ./your_play_frameworkbased_app All are done in the same console which doesn't store the JAVA HOME on the system path. If the specified JRE/JDK version is not available on system path or on execution console then running PLAY framework based application will provide following error trace, Exception in thread "main" java.lang. UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/typesafe/config/ ConfigException : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 at java.lang.ClassLoader. defineClass1(Native Method...