I am all for it, I've been using storm with Java 8 for quite some time without major issues. The performance aspect of it is better as well. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:03 PM Matthias J. Sax < [email protected]> wrote:
> I thinks it is a good idea to drop Java 6. It reached it's life cycle > already 2 year ago. > > -Matthias > > > On 06/01/2015 08:37 PM, P. Taylor Goetz wrote: > > CC user@ > > > > I’d like to poll the community about the possibility of dropping support > for Java 1.6 in the Storm 0.10.0 release. To date, we have been very > conservative in terms of supporting 1.6, and I don’t see much of an issue > moving up to 1.7, but I’d like to get a broader view. > > > > If we were to move up to 1.7, it would make the upcoming 0.9.5 version > the last release compatible with Java 1.6. > > > > Any strong opinions? Would anyone object? > > > > -Taylor > > > >
