+1. I'd actually embrace Java 8 given the chance, as that does bring really new stuff to the language itself.
For java 7, best benefits I've seen in the hadoop code are -try with resources -collapsed exceptions. the type inference on collections, e.g. new HashMap<>(), is cute, but with IDEs doing the work already, nothing special. & Switch-on-strings either isn't needed much, or people aren't in a rush to move. On 20 February 2015 at 22:01:03, Sumit Mohanty ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) wrote: Given that Java 6 is no longer supported (even Java 7 will not be supported after Spring 2015) and Hadoop 2.7+ is JDK7+, we should have Slider move to JDK7+. This is a call to vote to have Slider move to JDK7+ after the upcoming 0.70 release. As 0.70 already has its release branch, we can have the develop branch moved to JDK7 as soon as the vote passes. The vote will be open for at least 72 hours. [ ] +1 approve [ ] -1 disapprove (and reason why) To start a +1 from me. Thanks Sumit
