Also just saw that Java 7 EOL is in about 6 months [1]
[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Stephan Ewen <[email protected]> wrote: > I know of a few companies who made the move away from java 6 just in the > last weeks or months. > > I would vote to delay the bump till end of the year. > Am 22.10.2014 22:39 schrieb "Daniel Warneke" <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> >> I would also be in favor of dropping Java 6 support. In my opinion, Java 7 >> is the standard these days. All of the three big Hadoop distributions also >> already consider Java 6 as deprecated for their latest releases [1,2,3]. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Daniel >> >> [1] http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/documentation/cdh5/latest/ >> CDH5-Requirements-and-Supported-Versions/cdhrsv_jdk.html >> [2] http://doc.mapr.com/display/MapR/JDK+Support+Matrix >> [3] http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.1- >> latest/bk_installing_manually_book/content/rpm-chap1-2.html#rpm-chap1-2-3 >> >> Am 22.10.2014 21:35, schrieb Aljoscha Krettek: >> >>> One of the reasons is that Scala was not very well known when the >>> project started. That was around 2009. (Correct me if I'm wrong here, >>> please) The more important reason is that we try to have efficient >>> algorithms and memory management. This is easier to achieve in a >>> language like Java that is relatively low-level compared to Scala. >>> Scala makes it easy to write concise code that get's compiled to >>> inefficient code. >>> >>> just my 2 cents... >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> While I just just joined the community, so I am yet to be aware of the >>>> internals of Flink but I am already liking the feature enhancements in >>>> Java >>>> 7 (type inferences, try-with-resources, diamond operator comes to my >>>> mind). >>>> >>>> A digressing question, and I am sure this has would have been debated >>>> extensively so pardon for bringing this up again.., but how did we chose >>>> between java and scala? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Henry Saputra <[email protected] >>>> > >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> HI Guys, >>>>> >>>>> I am wondering what do you guys think if we make Flink requires Java7 >>>>> for both compile and runtime? >>>>> >>>>> Several reasons why I am proposing this: >>>>> 1. Java6 has reached end of life as announced by Oracle. We have seen >>>>> compile error happening with some versions of Java 6 >>>>> 2. Flink is just starting and hence have more flexibility to move to >>>>> Java 7 >>>>> 3. Flink does not have compile dependencies that requires Java 6 >>>>> 4. Java 7 enhancements: >>>>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/jdk7-relnotes-418459.html >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Let me know what do you guys think. >>>>> >>>>> - Henry >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Mohit >>>> >>>> "When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get >>>> it. >>>> There is no other secret of success." >>>> -Socrates >>>> >>> >>
