exception in thread "main" java.lang.unsupportedclassversionerror

I just upgraded java runtime from 1.3 to 1.4.2_11. Now trying to run the tzupdater tool for DST changes, and getting the following error:

exception in thread "main" java.lang.unsupportedclassversionerror: com/sun/tools/tzupdater/timezoneupdater (unsupported major.minor version 48.0)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(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$100(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 java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)

at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)

Suggestions?

[1052 byte] By [Suntana] at [2007-11-26 20:57:29]
# 1
Search the forum before posting. http://onesearch.sun.com/search/onesearch/index.jsp?qt=unsupportedclassversionerror&subCat=&site=dev&dftab=&chooseCat=javaall&col=developer-forums
tanmoy_rajgurua at 2007-7-10 2:26:45 > top of Java-index,Desktop,Runtime Environment...
# 2

I'm not an experienced developer, so searches didn't do me any good because I didn't understand the solution suggestions. Basically I'm on refering to JRE. I removed older 1.3 version and installed 1.4.2_11. Now getting this. I'm not seeing any window path variable setting either, like a lot of people. Is there an easy solution to this problem?

Suntana at 2007-7-10 2:26:45 > top of Java-index,Desktop,Runtime Environment...
# 3
Try to install JDK which comes with the JRE instead of installing them saparately, and before installing remove any previous Versions of JRE and JDK. Thats one solution of the problem.
tanmoy_rajgurua at 2007-7-10 2:26:46 > top of Java-index,Desktop,Runtime Environment...