Re: [DISCUSS] Java 8 as a minimum requirement

2016-06-21 Thread Marcus Gründler
rokers, but you can use > older clients with newer brokers. As such, the scenario we're talking about > is that of users who can upgrade their brokers and clients to the latest > Kafka version, but are stuck with an older version of WebSphere, right? Are > you aware of such users? &g

Re: [DISCUSS] Java 8 as a minimum requirement

2016-06-17 Thread Marcus Gründler
-1 Hi Ismael, Although I really like the Java 8 features and understand the advantages you mentioned about Java 8 migration, I would suggest to stay with Java 7 as a minimum requirement for a while. I think there are two aspects to consider - Kafka Server and Kafka clients. On the server part it