Re: JDK8

2015-05-08 Thread Max Penet
We've been running Oracle JDK8 on 30'ish servers (clj based web api, aggregation/streaming service, cassandra 2.1+, elastic search, etc) without any (noticeable) hiccups for a couple of weeks here. On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 10:25:13 PM UTC+2, Pierre-Yves Ritschard wrote: > > Hi, > > There

Re: JDK8

2015-05-07 Thread Sean Corfield
On May 7, 2015, at 1:24 PM, Pierre-Yves Ritschard wrote: > There hasn't been a JDK version thread in a while and a few projects we rely > on will soon require a JDK8. Are people running large apps on JDK8 and if so, > which one ? I'd be intent on trying to stick with OpenJDK if at all possible.

Re: JDK8

2015-05-07 Thread tcrayford
Java 7 is EOL as of last week, so pretty much everybody who runs stuff in production should be upgrading to Java 8 unless they have a support contract that lets them do otherwise. There won't be (as far as I know) more security updates/etc on the Java 7 line any more. Yeller's (http://yellerapp

Re: JDK8

2015-05-07 Thread Alex Miller
There are no issues I'm aware of with running Clojure on JDK 8. I use it frequently and I know many people are running it in production with Clojure. I know of one potential issue with JDK 9 - use of sun.* packages for ctrl-c signal handling in the REPL, which will no longer be available (http:

Re: JDK8

2015-05-07 Thread Michael Blume
Not quite sure what you're asking -- I think Clojure itself is intended to be fully supported on JDK 8, and I regularly build it/build my projects with JDK 8 (though I think I'm using the Oracle version) On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:25 PM Pierre-Yves Ritschard wrote: > Hi, > > There hasn't been a JD