How do we go about setting up builds on jdk7? Couldn't figure out how to do it on Jenkins, so I'm assuming it either requires PMC or Infra?
-Sandy On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Santhosh M S <santhosh_mut...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Resurrecting an old thread - now that JDK 6 is EOL should we switch over > to JDK 7 across the board? > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Santhosh > > > ________________________________ > From: Eli Collins <e...@cloudera.com> > To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 6:19 PM > Subject: Re: Java 7 and Hadoop > > > We should officially support it in Hadoop (one piece of BIGTOP-458 > which is for supporting it across the whole stack). > Now that HADOOP-8370 (fixes native compilation) is in the full tarball > should work. A good next step would be updating JAVA_HOME on one of > the Hadoop jenkins jobs to use jdk7. > > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Thomas Graves <tgra...@yahoo-inc.com> > wrote: > > 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 > >>> > >>> > >
