Posted by Sven Gothel on Sep 12, 2013; 8:05am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/JOGL-2-0-2-requires-Java-7-tp4030018p4030026.html

On 09/11/2013 11:45 PM, gouessej [via jogamp] wrote:
> Your analysis seems to be logical as "major.minor version 51.0" matches with
> Java 1.7. I don't know why it was built with Java 1.7 but OpenJDK 1.6 became
> unusable a few weeks ago because of a major regression and some security
> changes were necessary for Java 1.7. I'm not sure supporting Java 1.6 is a
> good idea even though I understand that it can be annoying for end users.

That is correct, however, the class should have been compiled w/ Java6,
so it is a bug.

@Martinez: Pls file a bug.

~Sven