Re: Changes in Java

2018-03-23 Thread Owen O'Malley
In my experience, most Hadoop users have moved from the Oracle JDK to OpenJDK, where the support windows are much longer. For example, on RedHat the Java support looks like: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013 which currently shows Java 8 as supported until October 2020. .. Owen

Re: Changes in Java

2018-03-22 Thread Akira Ajisaka
Hi Gerald, Now Apache Hadoop supports Java 8 and not support Java 9 or upper. We've been working for supporting Java 9 and Java 10, - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11123 - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11423 however, Java 9 is now unsupported and Java 10 support wi

Changes in Java

2018-03-22 Thread Gerald Henriksen
So with the changes in how Java is released and supported are there going to be any changes in how Hadoop supports Java versions? For those not aware Oracle has changed how Java is supported, with the following details: 1) Java is now on a 6 month release schedule 2) anything other than a LTS r