+1. It will be good to start supporting Java 9.
Thank you,
Vlad
On 1/18/18 11:01, Hitesh Kapoor wrote:
+1.
--Hitesh
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 12:28 AM, Ananth G <ananthg.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All,
I was wondering if we can consider making java 8 as the minimum supported
idk version going forward.
Since Apex core is moving to the next release cycle, perhaps we consider
this ? My assumption is that the next release version for core after the
3.7.0 release is going to be a major version bump ?
My understanding is that core needs to move to idk 8 before we can move
library/malhar to idk 8.
Here are some points to consider (There might be more points to the list
below) :
- Java 7 has been deprecated from a support model more than 2 years back
- Peer streaming frameworks like Flink are mandating Java 8
- Apache Beam is moving to Java 8 from its next release cycle
- Many hadoop vendors provide java 8 as the base for the platform.
- Will help the community to use java8 streams and lambdas in operators and
core
- There are certain maven dependencies which might be more optimal if java8
dependency is inherited as opposed to java 7version of the dependencies
- Junit5 might help in richer unit tests.
Regards,
Ananth
