RE: [Proposal] Switch to Java 7

2014-01-08 Thread Donal Lafferty
ect: Re: [Proposal] Switch to Java 7 > > I would be in favor as well. In addition to the already discussed reasons, I > think it would be good to try to get our users to a well maintained version of > Java. From a security point of view 1.6 is not a smart choice any more. > > U

RE: [Proposal] Switch to Java 7

2014-01-07 Thread Rajesh Battala
+1 for java 1.7 -Original Message- From: Laszlo Hornyak [mailto:laszlo.horn...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 4:50 AM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [Proposal] Switch to Java 7 +1 for java 1.7 and resource blocks, it will help to simplify On Tue, Jan 7, 2014

Re: [Proposal] Switch to Java 7

2014-01-07 Thread Laszlo Hornyak
+1 for java 1.7 and resource blocks, it will help to simplify On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Hugo Trippaers wrote: > I would be in favor as well. In addition to the already discussed reasons, > I think it would be good to try to get our users to a well maintained > version of Java. From a sec

Re: [Proposal] Switch to Java 7

2014-01-07 Thread Hugo Trippaers
I would be in favor as well. In addition to the already discussed reasons, I think it would be good to try to get our users to a well maintained version of Java. From a security point of view 1.6 is not a smart choice any more. Upgrading to Jdk 7 could also trigger an upgrade to tomcat 7. Best p

Re: [Proposal] Switch to Java 7

2014-01-07 Thread Kelven Yang
+1 for switching to Java 7 in CloudStack 4.4. Kelven On 1/6/14, 10:27 PM, "Wido den Hollander" wrote: >Just to repeat what has been discussed some time ago. > >All the current Long Term Support distributions have Java 7 available. > >RHEL6, RHEL7, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04 (due in April) will

Re: [Proposal] Switch to Java 7

2014-01-06 Thread Wido den Hollander
Just to repeat what has been discussed some time ago. All the current Long Term Support distributions have Java 7 available. RHEL6, RHEL7, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04 (due in April) will all have Java 7 available. I don't see a problem in switching to Java 7 with CloudStack 4.4 or 4.5 Wido O

Re: [Proposal] Switch to Java 7

2014-01-06 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
Java 7 is preferred for Apache Hadoop but not required http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HadoopJavaVersions (I was looking to see if other OSS projects had migrated) -- Chiradeep > On Jan 6, 2014, at 6:16 PM, "Ryan Lei" wrote: > > There was yet another similar discussion a half-year ago: > http://m

Re: [Proposal] Switch to Java 7

2014-01-06 Thread Ryan Lei
There was yet another similar discussion a half-year ago: http://markmail.org/thread/ap6v46r3mdsgdszp --- Yu-Heng (Ryan) Lei, Associate Researcher Cloud Computing Dept, Chunghwa Telecom Labs ryan...@cht.com.tw

Re: [Proposal] Switch to Java 7

2014-01-06 Thread Kelven Yang
Yes, it is for the same reason, to management resource leaking in a better way. Java 7 finally has added this long-waited language feature. I’ve been using JRE 7 with CloudStack for a while and didn’t see any alerted issues. Kelven On 1/6/14, 3:34 PM, "Chiradeep Vittal" wrote: >Yes, there was a

Re: [Proposal] Switch to Java 7

2014-01-06 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
Yes, there was another discussion here: http://markmail.org/thread/uf6bxab6u4z4fmrp On 1/6/14 3:18 PM, "Kelven Yang" wrote: >Java 7 has been around for some time now. I strongly suggest CloudStack >to adopt Java 7 as early as possible, the reason I feel like to raise the >issue is from the som

[Proposal] Switch to Java 7

2014-01-06 Thread Kelven Yang
Java 7 has been around for some time now. I strongly suggest CloudStack to adopt Java 7 as early as possible, the reason I feel like to raise the issue is from the some of practicing with the new DB transaction pattern, as following example shows. The new Transaction pattern uses anonymous clas