Hi Israel, Many users continue to deploy Flume on Java 6. If people want to run Flume against Java 7, it will work, but we cannot drop support for compiling/running with Java 6.
Regards, Mike On Apr 14, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Israel Ekpo <[email protected]> wrote: > Developers, > > I was reading the following excerpt from the Oracle website a couple of > days ago and I was wondering when the project plans to move to Java 7. > > In the POM, the maven compiler plugin is set to Java 6. > > For the 1.4 release, it would be nice for us to move to the latest version > of Java that will continue to have security updates. > > After February 2013, Oracle will no longer post updates of Java SE 6 to its > public download sites. All Java 6 releases up to and including 6u43 will be > moved to the Java Archive on the Oracle Technology Network, where they will > remain available but not receive updates. Oracle recommends that users > migrate to Java 7 in order to continue receiving public updates and > security enhancements. > > References > http://java.com/en/download/faq/java_6.xml > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
