Hadoop Error - WordCount : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

Check out the error below. If you are getting a similar error while running a Java jar file on hadoop sandbox, the probable cause is that you compiled your code with a version of Java that's newer than the one running in the hadoop machine. So, recompile your code with a compatible jdk version and try again.

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Failing Oozie Launcher, Main class [WordCount], exception invoking main(), WordCount : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: WordCount : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247)
at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getClassByNameOrNull(Configuration.java:1659)
at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getClassByName(Configuration.java:1624)
at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getClass(Configuration.java:1718)
at org.apache.oozie.action.hadoop.LauncherMapper.map(LauncherMapper.java:224)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.run(MapRunner.java:54)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:429)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:341)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild$2.run(YarnChild.java:162)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1491)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild.main(YarnChild.java:157)

Oozie Launcher failed, finishing Hadoop job gracefully