Joel Handloff

ok, yes, I probably do have two versions installed on my machine.
I don't think I can resolve that without getting in trouble here at work.
Thanks for you time!!

That gets me:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: MyFirstApp (U
nsupported major.minor version 49.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:537)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:12
3)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)

ok, I'm obviously not very bright...
I've installed the JDK, and I can javac my code.
when I try to run it, I get a NoClassDefFoundError.
I'm assuming that this is some sort of path issue, but wouldn't that prevent me from compiling it in the first place?
code below

public class MyFirstApp {
public static void main (String[] args) {
System.out.println("I Rule!");
}
}