"The Thrift Java compiler creates code that is not compliant with Java 5."
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1170 So you may have trouble getting the thrift API to run. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 17 Jun 2011, at 03:14, karim abbouh wrote: > i use jdk1.6 to install and launch cassandra in a linux platform,but can i > use jdk1.5 for my cassandra Client ?