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Srinivas
- Typed on tiny keys. pls ignore typos.{mobile app}
On 17-Oct-2017 9:47 PM, "Ismaël Mejía" wrote:
> We have discussed recently in the developer mailing list about the
> idea of removing support for Java 7 on Beam. There are multiple
> reasons for this:
>
> - Java 7 has not received public updates for almost two years and most
> companies are moving / have already moved to Java 8.
> - A good amount of the systems Beam users rely on have decided to drop
> Java 7 support, e.g. Spark, Flink, Elasticsearch, even Hadoop plans to
> do it on version 3.
> - Most Big data distributions and Cloud managed Spark/Hadoop services
> have already moved to Java 8.
> - Recent versions of core libraries Beam uses are moving to be Java 8
> only (or mostly), e.g. Guava, Google Auto, etc.
> - Java 8 has some nice features that can make Beam code nicer e.g.
> lambdas, streams.
>
> Considering that Beam is a ‘recent’ project we expect users to be
> already using Java 8. However we wanted first to ask the opinion of
> the Beam users on this subject. It could be the case that some of the
> users are still dealing with some old cluster running on Java 7 or
> have another argument to keep the Java 7 compatibility.
>
> So, please vote:
> +1 Yes, go ahead and move Beam support to Java 8.
> 0 Do whatever you want. I don’t have a preference.
> -1 Please keep Java 7 compatibility (if possible add your argument to
> keep supporting for Java 7).
>
