
Some programs allow conversion of Java programs from one version of the Java platform to an older one (for example Java 5.0 backported to 1.4) (see Java backporting tools). Entire new APIs, such as Swing and Java2D, have been introduced, and many of the original JDK 1.0 classes and methods have been deprecated. In addition to the language changes, other changes have been made to the Java Class Library over the years, which has grown from a few hundred classes in JDK 1.0 to over three thousand in J2SE 5. This proposal took effect for all following versions, and is still the current release schedule. In September 2017, Mark Reinhold, chief Architect of the Java Platform, proposed to change the release train to "one feature release every six months" rather than the then-current two-year schedule. The language is specified by the Java Language Specification (JLS) changes to the JLS are managed under JSR 901. Since J2SE 1.4, the evolution of the Java language has been governed by the Java Community Process (JCP), which uses Java Specification Requests (JSRs) to propose and specify additions and changes to the Java platform. The Java language has undergone several changes since JDK 1.0 as well as numerous additions of classes and packages to the standard library. If you run your own server on your PC or something like a VPS, you need to either uninstall your current Java version and install Java 17, or install Java 17 alongside your existing Java installation and update the system path for it or specify the direct java binary path when starting your Minecraft server.This article is about the Java programming language.

If you have a server with another company, you need to contact them to fix it.

INFO Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try again Minecraft 1.18, 1.18.1 and higher released in 2021 require Java 17 to run. If you get the following error when starting your Minecraft server it's due to you not having the correct Java version installed or being used.
