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Rick Kellogg commented on HADOOP-11090:
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Suggest we look into using Animal Sniffer
(http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/) to ensure API compatibility between
releases.
The folks at Spring Source use it to help with Java 6-8 compatibility as well.
See:
http://spring.io/blog/2015/04/03/how-spring-achieves-compatibility-with-java-6-7-and-8
> [Umbrella] Support Java 8 in Hadoop
> -----------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-11090
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11090
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Mohammad Kamrul Islam
> Assignee: Mohammad Kamrul Islam
>
> Java 8 is coming quickly to various clusters. Making sure Hadoop seamlessly
> works with Java 8 is important for the Apache community.
>
> This JIRA is to track the issues/experiences encountered during Java 8
> migration. If you find a potential bug , please create a separate JIRA either
> as a sub-task or linked into this JIRA.
> If you find a Hadoop or JVM configuration tuning, you can create a JIRA as
> well. Or you can add a comment here.
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