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Lars Hofhansl commented on HBASE-5261:
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Yeah, that blog summarizes it nicely.
We need this to *compile* HBase with JDK7. (As explained in the blog, even with
-source 1.6 it will not necessarily run on a JDK6, because of missing/changed
classes).
We do not need this when we compile HBase with JDK6 and then *run* with JDK7.
But since this option won't hurt anything, being able to compile HBase with
JDK7 is nice.
> Update HBase for Java 7
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> Key: HBASE-5261
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5261
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Mikhail Bautin
> Assignee: Mikhail Bautin
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> We need to make sure that HBase compiles and works with JDK 7. Once we verify
> it is reasonably stable, we can explore utilizing the G1 garbage collector.
> When all deployments are ready to move to JDK 7, we can start using new
> language features, but in the transition period we will need to maintain a
> codebase that compiles both with JDK 6 and JDK 7.
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