WFA commands fail with error 'JNI error has occurred'
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Applies to
- OnCommand WorkFlow Automation (WFA) 5.0
 - Windows environment
 - java-10-openjdk
 
Issue
The WFA command wfa.cmd -key failed with the error: 
Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try again
Exception in thread "main"
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/netapp/wfa/cli/Main
has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime(class file version 55.0),
this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file  versions up to 52.0
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
        at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:495)
