Thanks Li, There is no JIRA as yet except for Arrow 2015 for the JODA time migration to Java 8 Time - so please create a JIRA.
Cheers Dwight Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 30, 2018, at 11:35 AM, Li Jin <ice.xell...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Dwight, > > I think it would be good to track the required items for moving to Java 8 > support. > > As far as I know, Arrow works with Java 8 already so this shouldn't be too > hard. > > Dependencies wise downstream projects Spark 2.3 already drops Java 7 > support, I am not sure about Dremio. > > Is there a Jira for this already? If not I can create one. > > Li > >> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Dwight Gunning <dgunn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Arrow Java currently compiles against Java 7 and it is time to plan an >> upgrade to a later compilation target. The most suitable candidate is Java >> 8 which according to Baeldung <http://www.baeldung.com/java-in-2017> >> reached *75% developer penetration* in 2017. >> >> The immediate trigger for this discussion was Arrow 2015 - Use Java 8 Date >> and Time API instead of Joda Time >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2015>*. *The Java 8 move >> would >> therefore be a prerequisite for that JIRA. >> >> Let's discuss any challenges for moving to Java 8. E.g. it was mentioned in >> the Jan 24th meetup that Java 8 impacted Javadoc generation. >> >> Thanks >> Dwight Gunning >> FINRA (Toronto) >>
