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public class SimpleJava {       public void showMessage() {       System.out.println("Here we are");    } }    Ran into this small little problem when compiling java to use in an Oracle procedure. ORA-29516: Aurora assertion failure: Assertion failure at eox.c:359 Uncaught exception System error: java/lang/UnsupportedClassVersionError I could understand that I had somehow compiled the class using an incorrect version but seeing as I had done this from the server I thought I would have been OK. A bit of digging and I came up with the following: Find the version the class was actually compiled in: javap -verbose SimpleJava This gave the following output along with some other info: public class SimpleJava extends java.lang.Object SourceFile: "SimpleJava.java" minor version: 0 major version: 50 Table of versions: major  minor Java platform version  45       3       ...