jclouds presently supports Java 6, 7, and 8 which imposes extra development costs and prevents uptake of new language and library features including try-with-resources, NIO.2, and HTTP client improvements. Oracle ceased public updates to Java 6 in early 2013[1] and jclouds could use this to guide its support strategy. The jclouds developers would like to understand how many users continue to use Java 6 and what prevents upgrading to newer versions. Please respond to this thread with any relevant information. Thanks!
-- Andrew Gaul http://gaul.org/
