Github user HeartSaVioR commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/519#issuecomment-92883455
@Lewuathe IMO, yes, at most JDK 7.
Various users use Storm with various JDK versions.
It may be unacceptable when I want to upgrade only Storm, but it also
requires upgrade of JDK especially it isn't fully guaranteed to be stable with
various libraries.
Project could have many dependencies and Storm is just only one of things.
Please note that we can use Storm with JDK 8 without compiling Storm codes
to JDK 8.
Furthermore, Oracle still supports JDK7 with Oracle Java SE support (though
I don't subscribe), and there still exists OpenJDK 7.
One more thing, Clojure, Scala, or sth. seems to be still more powerful
than JDK 8.
If you think that it is better for Storm to move to JDK 8, I encourage you
to find spots from current Storm codebase which can take advantage of new JDK
version.
I think it is more important than just changing source / target JDK version.
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