Re: Shifting to Java 7 . Is it good choice?

2012-07-19 Thread Harsh J
Here's the Apache Bigtop JIRA thats leading the Java 7 effort for all components in the Hadoop eco-system: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-458. This may interest you. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:05 AM, Pavan Kulkarni pavan.babu...@gmail.com wrote: That was really helpful. @Robert: No

Shifting to Java 7 . Is it good choice?

2012-07-17 Thread Pavan Kulkarni
Hi, I have to tweak a few classes and for this I needed few packages which are only present in Java 7 like java.nio.file , So I was wondering If I can shift my development environment of Hadoop to Java 7? Would this break anything ? Thanks -- --With Regards Pavan Kulkarni

Re: Shifting to Java 7 . Is it good choice?

2012-07-17 Thread Radim Kolar
I have to tweak a few classes and for this I needed few packages which are only present in Java 7 like java.nio.file , So I was wondering If I can shift my development environment of Hadoop to Java 7? Would this break anything ? openjdk 7 works, but nio async file access is slower then

Re: Shifting to Java 7 . Is it good choice?

2012-07-17 Thread Robert Evans
Oracle is dropping java 6 support by the end of the year. So there is likely to be a big shift to java 7 before then. Currently Hadoop officially supports java 6 so unless there is an official change of position you cannot use Java 7 specific APIs if you want to check your code into Hadoop.

Re: Shifting to Java 7 . Is it good choice?

2012-07-17 Thread Pavan Kulkarni
That was really helpful. @Robert: No I am just working on a research project, I am not checking the code into Hadoop. Thanks Radim and Robert. On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Robert Evans ev...@yahoo-inc.com wrote: Oracle is dropping java 6 support by the end of the year. So there is likely