Re: Dropping support for JDK6 in Apache Hadoop

2014-08-19 Thread Deepak Vohra
zie.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:49 PM Subject: Re: Dropping support for JDK6 in Apache Hadoop Yes, in terms of forward compatibility, my company has been certifying the current Hadoop-related stack on JDK7 (both Oracle and OpenJDK) for some time.  No problems there, in our experie

Re: Dropping support for JDK6 in Apache Hadoop

2014-08-19 Thread Matt Foley
Yes, in terms of forward compatibility, my company has been certifying the current Hadoop-related stack on JDK7 (both Oracle and OpenJDK) for some time. No problems there, in our experience. For stopping supporting JDK6 in the near future, and enabling JDK7 feature usage, +1. --Matt On Tue, Au

Re: Dropping support for JDK6 in Apache Hadoop

2014-08-19 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
FWIW: in Bigtop we've made the switch to JDK7 for the Bigtop 0.8.0 release across the board. No major issues so far. Thanks, Roman. On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Arun C Murthy wrote: > [Apologies for the wide distribution.] > > Dear HBase/Hive/Pig/Oozie communities, > > We, over at Hadoop a