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T Jake Luciani commented on CASSANDRA-8168:
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Here is a nice example of building chained async methods in java 8
http://blog.jooq.org/2014/09/23/asynchronous-sql-execution-with-jooq-and-java-8s-completablefuture/
We can get the same functionality with java listenable futures but so this is
probably not a strong enough reason. but it's certainly easier to grock
> Require Java 8
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> 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
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> 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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