Hey Scott, Nice. Please update this page with your experience when you get a chance: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HadoopJavaVersions
Thanks, Eli On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Scott Carey <sc...@richrelevance.com> wrote: > Java 7 update 4 has been released. It is even available for MacOS X from > Oracle: > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-7u4-downloads-1591156.html > > Java 6 will reach end of life in about 6 months. After that point, there > will be no more public updates from Oracle for Java 6, even security updates. > https://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/updated_java_6_eol_date > You can of course pay them for updates or build your own OpenJDK. > > The entire Hadoop ecosystem needs to test against Java 7 JDKs this year. I > will be testing some small clusters of ours with JDK 7 in about a month, and > my internal projects will start using Java 7 features shortly after. > > > See the JDK roadmap: > http://blogs.oracle.com/javaone/resource/java_keynote/slide_15_full_size.gif > https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/moving_java_forward_java_strategy > >
