Oracle is dropping java 6 support by the end of the year. So there is likely to be a big shift to java 7 before then. Currently Hadoop officially supports java 6 so unless there is an official change of position you cannot use Java 7 specific APIs if you want to check your code into Hadoop. Hadoop currently should work on 7, like Radim said, and if you are building something on top of Hadoop it is fine, but if we are dropping support for java 6 that will require some discussion on the mailing lists.
--Bobby Evans On 7/17/12 2:35 PM, "Radim Kolar" <h...@filez.com> wrote: > >> I have to tweak a few classes and for this I needed few packages >>which >> are >> only present in Java 7 like "java.nio.file" , So I was wondering If I >>can >> shift my >> development environment of Hadoop to Java 7? Would this break anything ? >openjdk 7 works, but nio async file access is slower then traditional.
