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When I run...

grails package
java -jar build/libs/<my_app>.jar

I get...

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/company/my_app/Application : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
        at org.springframework.boot.loader.LaunchedURLClassLoader.doLoadClass(LaunchedURLClassLoader.java:170)
        at org.springframework.boot.loader.LaunchedURLClassLoader.loadClass(LaunchedURLClassLoader.java:142)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
        at org.springframework.boot.loader.MainMethodRunner.run(MainMethodRunner.java:47)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
SGT Grumpy Pants
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This turn out to be simple enough. I was running with Java 7. When I upgraded to Java 8, everything worked fine.

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