Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli : U

1、错误描述

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)
	at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:56)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.realm.ClassRealm.loadClassFromSelf(ClassRealm.java:401)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.strategy.SelfFirstStrategy.loadClass(SelfFirstStrategy.java:42)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.realm.ClassRealm.unsynchronizedLoadClass(ClassRealm.java:271)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.realm.ClassRealm.loadClass(ClassRealm.java:254)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.realm.ClassRealm.loadClass(ClassRealm.java:239)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.getMainClass(Launcher.java:144)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:266)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:47)

2、错误原因

     major.minor version 51.0需要jdk1.7，major.minor version 50.0需要jdk1.6，项目中major.minor version 51.0却用的是jdk1.6，出现错误

3、解决办法

（1）修改jdk版本，将其改为jdk1.7

（2）降低Maven版本，改为Maven3.2.3