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Christopher Tubbs commented on ACCUMULO-905:
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Update: The last security patch for Oracle JDK was 2013-04-16 (1.6.0_45). And,
it looks like OpenJDK hasn't had a tag for 1.6 in about 8 months. OpenJDK was
dropped from Fedora in version 16 (currently Fedora is 18, nearing 19, on ~6
month release cycles). I'm not sure what OpenJDK 1.6 support looks like in the
next major RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu releases, but I know that OpenJDK 1.7 has been
supported since RHEL/CentOS 6.3 (~June 2012).
I think the Accumulo 1.5 line will be stable enough to sustain users slow to
adopt a newer version of Java for the foreseeable future. I don't think we need
to hold back use of newer features for this any longer, personally. However,
Keith is right... we should call a vote on the dev list.
> 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
>
> Attachments: ACCUMULO-905-1.patch
>
> Original Estimate: 5m
> Time Spent: 0.05h
> Remaining Estimate: 2m
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> 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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