I've seen more and more people using java 7. We are also planning to move to java 7 due to the eol of java 6 that Scott referenced.
What are folks thoughts on making it officially supported by Hadoop? Is there a process for this or is it simply updating the wiki Eli mentioned after sufficient testing? Thanks, Tom On 4/26/12 4:25 PM, "Eli Collins" <e...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hey Scott, > > Nice. Please update this page with your experience when you get a chance: > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HadoopJavaVersions > > Thanks, > Eli > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Scott Carey <sc...@richrelevance.com> wrote: >> Java 7 update 4 has been released. It is even available for MacOS X from >> Oracle: >> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-7u4-downloads-159 >> 1156.html >> >> Java 6 will reach end of life in about 6 months. After that point, there >> will be no more public updates from Oracle for Java 6, even security updates. >> https://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/updated_java_6_eol_date >> You can of course pay them for updates or build your own OpenJDK. >> >> The entire Hadoop ecosystem needs to test against Java 7 JDKs this year. I >> will be testing some small clusters of ours with JDK 7 in about a month, and >> my internal projects will start using Java 7 features shortly after. >> >> >> See the JDK roadmap: >> http://blogs.oracle.com/javaone/resource/java_keynote/slide_15_full_size.gif >> https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/moving_java_forward_java_strategy >> >>
