Here's the Apache Bigtop JIRA thats leading the Java 7 effort for all components in the Hadoop eco-system: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-458. This may interest you.
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:05 AM, Pavan Kulkarni <pavan.babu...@gmail.com> wrote: > That was really helpful. > @Robert: No I am just working on a research project, I am not checking the > code into Hadoop. > Thanks Radim and Robert. > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Robert Evans <ev...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> >> > > > -- > > --With Regards > Pavan Kulkarni -- Harsh J
