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Michael Allen commented on ACCUMULO-905:
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To my knowledge (and please, correct me if I'm wrong), Oracle has released no
security fixes in Java 6 for the remotely exploitable exploits that were
recently found. Java 7 is the only version that has these fixes. Waiting on
this for very long is a bad idea.
> Switch to Java 1.7
> ------------------
>
> Key: ACCUMULO-905
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-905
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
> Assignee: Christopher Tubbs
> Labels: java, jdk1.7
> Fix For: 1.6.0
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> Attachments: ACCUMULO-905-1.patch
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> Original Estimate: 5m
> Time Spent: 0.05h
> Remaining Estimate: 2m
>
> As 1.7 becomes the default Java in more and more operating systems, and
> security-related bugfixes and other fixes in Java itself are targeted more
> towards newer versions, rather than maintaining older versions, it would be
> prudent to switch to using 1.7 as our target platform.
> This change would allow us to leverage some of the newer features of Java.
> This change can be established at the beginning of the development cycle for
> Accumulo 1.6.0, so that we can immediately begin taking advantage of the new
> Java features in 1.6.0 features after 1.5.0 is released.
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