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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? > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder, http://www.datastax.com > @spyced >
