Hi folks,

I just recently started experimenting with the Mathematica J/Link extension, and decided to try and utilize a small custom Java class within Mathematica. The class is simple and runs perfectly well within Eclipse, but when I tried to follow the instructions for importing a Java class with J/Link at http://reference.wolfram.com/language/JLink/tutorial/CallingJavaFromTheWolframLanguage.html, I found that I kept getting the error:

**"A Java exception occurred: "java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: \ MyClass : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0"**

The above error was the result of the LoadJavaClass[] function. The simple code I had used up to this point was as follows:

Needs["JLink`"]
InstallJava[]
AddToClassPath["/My/Project/Class/Path/"]
LoadJavaClass["MyClass"]

With /My/Project/Class/Path/ as the directory path to the class and MyClass as the .class file itself, respectively.

I'm currently running java version "1.8.0_25", Mathematica 10.0.1.0, and Eclipse 4.4.1, if any of that makes a difference.

Thank you to anyone who has a few minutes to help explain to me what I'm doing wrong and hopefully how to go about doing it correctly.

-Wren