Problem installing tomcat 6

[sunil chandran]

Hi all,

 I have installed Tomcat 6 . but when i start the tomcat it gives the
following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError:
org/apache/catalina/startup/Bootstrap (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java
:123)
    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)


Please help me forward to solve it

-- 
Sunil