java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/geoserver/GeoserverInitStartupListen er : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

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java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/geoserver/GeoserverInitStartupListener : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)	at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)	at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)	at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)	at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppClassLoader.loadClass(WebAppClassLoader.java:366)	at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppClassLoader.loadClass(WebAppClassLoader.java:337)	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.loadClass(ContextHandler.java:1035)	at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebXmlConfiguration.initListener(WebXmlConfiguration.java:629)	at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebXmlConfiguration.initWebXmlElement(WebXmlConfiguration.java:367)	at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebXmlConfiguration.initialize(WebXmlConfiguration.java:289)	at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebXmlConfiguration.configure(WebXmlConfiguration.java:222)	at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebXmlConfiguration.configureWebApp(WebXmlConfiguration.java:180)	at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1217)	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:510)	at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:448)	at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39)	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:152)	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.doStart(ContextHandlerCollection.java:156)	at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39)	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:152)	at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39)	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:130)	at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:222)	at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39)	at org.mortbay.xml.XmlConfiguration.main(XmlConfiguration.java:977)	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)	at org.mortbay.start.Main.invokeMain(Main.java:183)	at org.mortbay.start.Main.start(Main.java:497)	at org.mortbay.start.Main.main(Main.java:115)