Prior to exporting an SOE to a .soe file, please ensure that:
JDK version 1.6.30 is installed on your computer and <JDK Home>/bin is added to the PATH environment variable.
And.. you'll need to sign up for an Oracle user account in order to download that older version of the JDK, because it has been retired and they are not being patched... egads.
Forwards and backwards is all relative because I'm going in "some" direction... right?