Both hadoop and HBase require java 6. A number of modifications are necessary to build HBase against hadoop-0.18.x (the last version of hadoop that supported java 5). There is a branch in the HBase SVN for 0.19_on_hadoop_0.18, but I'm not sure how up to date it is.
--- Jim Kellerman, Powerset (Live Search, Microsoft Corporation) > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Compton [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: JDK 1.5 - HBase 0.19.0 > > It appears that the release tarball for HBase 0.19.0 was compiled with JDK > 1.6. I need a copy that runs with 1.5. Is there an alternative tarball out > there somewhere? > > Larry Compton
