The following JIRA should allow 0.94.7 to run on top of (Oracle) jdk7: HBASE-8014 Backport HBASE-6915 to 0.94
As for why openjdk isn't officially supported, there might be historical reasons. Cheers On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Tariq <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Alok, > > I think this is because sun java is the industry standard when it > comes to java. Most widely used and accepted by all. And it is more stable > and fixed. As far as problems are concerned, I had faced some problem while > using hadoop and hbase with java 7..and it had come when something that was > using collections.sort() internally was being used (if I still remember it > correctly). But I have never used openjdk with hadoop and hbase. > > But, let us wait for comments from the experts on this. That would be more > informative and useful, as I am not a java or hbase expert. > > Alok Singh Mahor <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Hi all, > >should I strictly use only oracle's java 6 only? > >will I really face problem if I am using openjdk7? > >if then then what type of problem I will face? > >is/are anyone using openjdk? or tried that ? > > > >and why Hbase is built on top of sun's java ? I guess openjdk exist > >from > >long back. should hbase not be on top of openjdk? if no what are > >problems > >with openjdk? > > > >what about can I use java 7 for current stable hbase ? > > > >thanks and sorry for so many questions > > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
