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Re: Moving to JDK7, JDK8 and new major releases

Following up on ecosystem, I just took a look at the Apache trunk pom.xml files for HBase, Flume and Oozie. All are specifying 1.6 for source and target in the maven-compiler-plugin configuration, so there may be additional follow-up required here. (For example, if HBase has made a statement that

Re: Moving to JDK7, JDK8 and new major releases

Guava is a separate problem and I think we should have a separate discussion "what can we do about guava"? That's more traumatic than a JDK update, I fear, as the guava releases care a lot less about compatibility. I don't worry about JDK updates removing classes like "StringBuffer" because "String