how to reslove java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping#0': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Error loading class [com.citi.oprisk.erm.cache.CacheHolder] for bean with name 'cacheHolder' defined in file [C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.37\webapps\ERMDashBoard\WEB-INF\classes\com\citi\oprisk\erm\cache\CacheHolder.class]: problem with class file or dependent class; nested exception is java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file (unable to load class com.citi.oprisk.erm.cache.CacheHolder)
Related cause: org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Error loading class [com.citi.oprisk.erm.cache.CacheHolder] for bean with name 'cacheHolder' defined in file [C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.37\webapps\ERMDashBoard\WEB-INF\classes\com\citi\oprisk\erm\cache\CacheHolder.class]: problem with class file or dependent class; nested exception is java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file (unable to load class com.citi.oprisk.erm.cache.CacheHolder)
Related cause: org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Error loading class [com.citi.oprisk.erm.cache.CacheService] for bean with name 'cacheService' defined in file [C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.37\webapps\ERMDashBoard\WEB-INF\classes\com\citi\oprisk\erm\cache\CacheService.class]: problem with class file or dependent class; nested exception is java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file (unable to load class com.citi.oprisk.erm.cache.CacheService)
Related cause: org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Error loading class [com.citi.oprisk.erm.controller.OLAPController] for bean with name 'OLAPController' defined in file [C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.37\webapps\ERMDashBoard\WEB-INF\classes\com\citi\oprisk\erm\controller\OLAPController.class]: problem with class file or dependent class; nested exception is java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file (unable to load class com.citi.oprisk.erm.controller.OLAPController)
Related cause: org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Error loading class [com.citi.oprisk.erm.controller.TestController] for bean with name 'testController' defined in file [C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.37\webapps\ERMDashBoard\WEB-INF\classes\com\citi\oprisk\erm\controller\TestController.class]: problem with class file or dependent class; nested exception is java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file (unable to load class com.citi.oprisk.erm.controller.TestController)
Related cause: org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Error loading class [com.citi.oprisk.erm.datasource.OLAPDataSource] for bean with name 'OLAPDataSource' defined in file [C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.37\webapps\ERMDashBoard\WEB-INF\classes\com\citi\oprisk\erm\datasource\OLAPDataSource.class]: problem with class file or dependent class; nested exception is java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file (unable to load class com.citi.oprisk.erm.datasource.OLAPDataSource)
Related cause: org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Error loading class [com.citi.oprisk.erm.service.OLAPService] for bean with name 'OLAPService' defined in file [C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.37\webapps\ERMDashBoard\WEB-INF\classes\com\citi\oprisk\erm\service\OLAPService.class]: problem with class file or dependent class; nested exception is java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file (unable to load class com.citi.oprisk.erm.service.OLAPService)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:527)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:288)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:190)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:580)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:895)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:425)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:442)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:458)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:339)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:306)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:127)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1026)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4421)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4734)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:799)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:779)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:601)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:943)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:778)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:504)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1317)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1065)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:840)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1057)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:592)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Error loading class [com.citi.oprisk.erm.cache.CacheHolder] for bean with name 'cacheHolder' defined in file [C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.37\webapps\ERMDashBoard\WEB-INF\classes\com\citi\oprisk\erm\cache\CacheHolder.class]: problem with class file or dependent class; nested exception is java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file (unable to load class com.citi.oprisk.erm.cache.CacheHolder)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1253)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.predictBeanType(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:576)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.isFactoryBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1319)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeanNamesForType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:315)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeanNamesForType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:296)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBeanNamesForType(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1132)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.AbstractDetectingUrlHandlerMapping.detectHandlers(AbstractDetectingUrlHandlerMapping.java:75)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.AbstractDetectingUrlHandlerMapping.initApplicationContext(AbstractDetectingUrlHandlerMapping.java:58)
at org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport.initApplicationContext(ApplicationObjectSupport.java:119)
at org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationObjectSupport.initApplicationContext(WebApplicationObjectSupport.java:72)
at org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport.setApplicationContext(ApplicationObjectSupport.java:73)
at org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.invokeAwareInterfaces(ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.java:106)
at org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.postProcessBeforeInitialization(ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.java:85)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsBeforeInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:394)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1413)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
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Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file (unable to load class com.citi.oprisk.erm.cache.CacheHolder)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:2858)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1159)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1647)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1526)
at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:257)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinition.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanDefinition.java:408)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doResolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1271)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1242)

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1. Go to Tomcat folder, bin/catalina.bat.

2. run the bar file, make sure JDK/JRE is using same with complie JVM.

3. If not, please setup JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME in eniviorment.

4. Restart Tomcat.