SearchServlet has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime

Kyle :

When I use my search feature, I get an http status 500 error. It claims that

Error Report

HTTP Status 500 – Internal Server Error

Type Exception Report

Message SearchServlet has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 53.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0 (unable to load class [SearchServlet])

Description The server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request.

Exception java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: SearchServlet has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 53.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0 (unable to load class [SearchServlet]) org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:2286) org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.findClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:811) org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1260) org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1119) org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:488) org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:81) org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:650) org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:342) org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:803) org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66) org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:790) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1459) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

I am using compiler compliance level 9. I have JRE 1.8 which I thought was the most recent. When I try to install Java 9, using the Eclipse Marketplace, it tells me that

No repository found at http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/none.

I believe, given all of this, I am completely up to date, but how am I not able to search for records in the database?

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
  <meta charset="ISO-8859-1" <title>Add contact to Phone Book</title>
  <h1>Add contact to Phone Book</h1>
</head>

<body>
  <form name="submitInfo" method="get" action="AddEntryServlet" First Name: <input type="text" name="firstName" />
  <br/>
  <br/>
   Last Name: <input type="text" name="lastName" />
  <br/>
  <br/>
   Area Code: <input type="number" name="areaCode" />
  <br/>
  <br/>
   Phone Number: <input type="number" name="phoneNumber" />
  <br/>
  <br/>
  <input type="submit" value="Submit" />

  </form>
</body>
<h1>Search for Contact in Phone Book</h1>

<body>
  <form name="searchInfo" method="get" action="SearchServlet">
    Search First Name: <input type="text" name="searchFirstName" />
    <br/>
    <br/>

    <input type="submit" name="action" value="search" />

  </form>
</body>

</html>

Search servlet code

import java.io.IOException; 
import java.io.PrintWriter; 
import java.util.List;

import javax.servlet.ServletException; 
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet; 
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.hibernate.Query; import org.hibernate.Session;

import entities.Tbphonebook; import util.HibernateUtil;

/**  * Servlet implementation class SearchServlet  */
@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
@WebServlet("/SearchServlet")
public class SearchServlet extends HttpServlet {    private static final long
serialVersionUID = 1L;

/**
* @see HttpServlet#HttpServlet()
*/
public SearchServlet() {
super();
  // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
  }

/**      * @see HttpServlet#doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)      */
@SuppressWarnings({ "deprecation","unchecked" })
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
    Session session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().openSession();
    session.beginTransaction();
    String firstName = request.getParameter("searchFirstName");         
    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") 
    Query query = Session.createQuery("from Tbphonebook where firstname = ?");


List<Tbphonebook> persons = (List<Tbphonebook>) query.getResultList();



session.getTransaction().commit();      
session.close();



request.setAttribute("persons", persons);
request.getRequestDispatcher("searchResults.jsp").forward(request,response);
response.sendRedirect("searchResults.jsp");


}

Results jsp

%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>Insert title here</title> </head>
<h1>Search Results</h1>
<h1>List Books:</h1>
<table class="table table-boardered table-striped" id="searchresults">      
    <tr>            
        <th>First Name</th>         
        <th>Last Name</th>
        <th>Area Code</th>          
        <th>PhoneNumber</th>
    </tr>       
</table>
<script>
        $(document).ready(function(){
        $.getJSON("persons", function(data){
            var persons_data = '';
            $.each(data, function(key, value){
                person_date += '<tr>';
                person_data += '<td>'+value.Firstname+'</td>';
                person_data += '<td>'+value.Lastname+'</td>';
                person_data += '<td>'+value.Areacode+'</td>';
                person_data += '<td>'+value.Phonenumber+'</td>';
                person_date += '</tr>';
            }
            );
        $('#searchresults').append(persons_data);
        });
    });
 </script>
<%
    String message = (String) request.getAttribute("message");
    if(!(message == null)){
        out.println(message);
        }else{
            message= "";
            out.println(message);
        }
%>

 </html>

Steve11235 :

"When I go to my compiler I am using compiler compliance level 9." Version 52.0 is Java 8; I assume 53.0 is Java 9. You are attempting to run code compiled for Java 9 on Java 8, which results in the error you are getting. Change your compliance version to Java 8.