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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Java 6 EOL is this month. Java 7 will be two years old when C* 2.0 > > comes out (July). Anecdotally, a bunch of people are running C* on > > Java7 with no issues, except for the Snappy-on-OS-X problem (which > > will be moot if LZ4 becomes our default, as looks likely). > > > > Upgrading to Java7 lets us take advantage of new (two year old) > > features as well as simplifying interoperability with other > > dependencies, e.g., Jetty's BlockingArrayQueue requires java7. > > > > Thoughts? > > We already do quite a bit of jdk version/type detection in > cassandra-env.sh so we can catch it early if they try to use java6 and > give a meaningful error, so this sounds good to me. > > -Brandon >
