title: Which is the minimum supported Java Version of Spring 4
body: <p>I recently one of my projects to Spring 4.0.0.RELEASE</p>
  
  <p>After deploying the project to my staging environment, I recognized an Exception with the following Message: <strong>bad major version at offset=6</strong>. My assumption is, that Sping 4 is not working with Java 6 (which I am forced to, because I can not change it on the system)</p>
  
  <p>(Actually I even was not aware, that a JAR is depending on the Java Version)</p>