try setting the following system property for groovy compilation: -Dgroovy.target.bytecode=1.8
Cheers, Daniel Sun On 2024/12/13 00:14:39 James Poli via users wrote: > Our company has upgraded to Groovy 4 and JDK 21. However, one platform we > support, MVS, only supports a JDK 8 runtime. > > When running a class compiled with Groovy 4, an exception results: > > ... java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: JVMCFRE199E bad major version > 61.0 of class=..., the maximum supported major version is 52.0; offset=6 > > Can we cross-compile or force Groovy to generate bytecodes that support JDK 8? > > I appreciate any help you can provide. > Jim > >