T Jake Luciani created CASSANDRA-8168:
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Summary: Require Java 8
Key: CASSANDRA-8168
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8168
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: Task
Reporter: T Jake Luciani
Fix For: 3.0
This is to discuss requiring Java 8 for version >= 3.0
There are a couple big reasons for this.
* Better support for complex async work e.g (CASSANDRA-5239)
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/CompletableFuture.html
* Use Nashorn for Javascript UDFs CASSANDRA-7395
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