Did you know Oracle have now deemed Java 9 a 'short term release'? I hadn't, and chatted to some colleagues who weren't aware either, so thought the community might be interested in this page at oracle, which gives service dates for java 8, 9 :
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html I also hadn't realised they will be moving to a new naming strategy - similar to ubuntu - based on YYMM, so 18.3 (March 2017) will be the next oracle release What I take away from this reading, is that any work with Java 9 is IMO not worth it as it's lifetime is negligible. At some point in 2018 we should support 18.3, and in future may be able exploit Further, given our recent discussion about build/dependencies, a recent issue with ranger and maven 3.5.0, and switch to java 8 on atlas itself, I wonder if people could consider my review proposal in https://reviews.apache.org/r/63462/ - just a small step to add extra clarity into 2 (so far) of the important prereqs.
