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New Contributor

5 years ago

SoapUI 5.6.0 upgrade keeps JRE 8 : java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError

When I started SoapUI 5.5.0 today, an upgrade to 5.6.0 was offered. However, after the upgrade, SoapUI doesn't start; it fails with this error: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/eviwar...

hok
5 years ago
Copying a more recent JRE (Java 11) into the jre subfolder (as suggested here) fixed it.

hok

New Contributor

5 years ago

Copying a more recent JRE (Java 11) into the jre subfolder (as suggested here) fixed it.

danzone
New Member
5 years ago
I confirm that this solved the issue also for me (SO: Ubuntu 20.04). I used AdoptOpenJDK11 and it worked.
- jmordonez
  New Contributor
  5 years ago
  Hi i'm having the same trouble but i cant find the jre subfolder inside of ~/SmartBear/SoapUI-5.6.0/, in wich directory i have to search?
  - richie
    Community Hero
    5 years ago
    hi jmordonez
    
    I have a jre as a child of my parent SoapUI folder (i.e. C:\Program Files\Smartbear\SoapUI-5.6.0\jre) but I'm running windows.
    
    What operating system are you running?
    
    rather than mess about with directories you could just install java properly instead? that would save all the hassle....
    
    ta,
    
    rich