Resurrecting an old thread - now that JDK 6 is EOL should we switch over to JDK 7 across the board?
Thoughts? Thanks, Santhosh ________________________________ From: Eli Collins <e...@cloudera.com> To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 6:19 PM Subject: Re: Java 7 and Hadoop We should officially support it in Hadoop (one piece of BIGTOP-458 which is for supporting it across the whole stack). Now that HADOOP-8370 (fixes native compilation) is in the full tarball should work. A good next step would be updating JAVA_HOME on one of the Hadoop jenkins jobs to use jdk7. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Thomas Graves <tgra...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > I've seen more and more people using java 7. We are also planning to move > to java 7 due to the eol of java 6 that Scott referenced. > > What are folks thoughts on making it officially supported by Hadoop? Is > there a process for this or is it simply updating the wiki Eli mentioned > after sufficient testing? > > Thanks, > Tom > > > On 4/26/12 4:25 PM, "Eli Collins" <e...@cloudera.com> wrote: > >> 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-159 >>> 1156.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 >>> >>> >
