It is not possible to open the most recent server.jar for the version 1.17 Pre-release 1.
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For reference, see the patch notes for 21w19a (https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-21w19a), which increased the minimum Java version to 16.
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Hi Ricardo, this means that your version of Java is not up to date. I use CubedHost for my multiplayer world and once I set my Java version to 16 everything worked fine.