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Keith Turner edited comment on ACCUMULO-905 at 2/5/13 7:18 PM:
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For Accumulo 1.5, if you test it against Java 1.7 and find issues please open
bugs.
I agree w/ Benson dropping support for Java 1.6 is a serious decision. We can
easily produce class files that work against Java 1.6 and Java 1.7 as long as
we do not utilize new Java 1.7 features in Accumulo 1.6. While using new Java
features would be nice, would any of these new features be necessary? From a
security standpoint, a user can use Java 1.7 without us producing class files
that only work with Java 1.7.
was (Author: kturner):
For Accumulo 1.5, if you test it against Java 1.7 and find issues please
open bugs.
I agree w/ Benson dropping support for Java 1.6 is a serious decision. We can
easily produce class files that work against Java 1.6 and Java 1.7 as long as
we do not utilize new Java 1.7 features in Accumulo 1.6. While using new Java
features would be nice, would any of these new features be necessary? From a
security standpoint, a user can use Java 1.7 without use producing class files
that only work with Java 1.7.
> Switch to Java 1.7
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>
> 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
>
> Attachments: ACCUMULO-905-1.patch
>
> 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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