Does Datastax (or any other company) support Cassandra under Java 7? Or will they tell you to downgrade when you have some problem, because they don't support C* running on 7?
At least that would be one way of defining "officially supported". On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com> wrote: > What kind of official statement do you want? As far as I can be considered > an official voice of the project, my statement is: "various people run in > production with Java 7 and it seems to work". > > Or to answer the initial question, the only issue related to Java 7 that I > know of is CASSANDRA-4958, but that's osx specific (I wouldn't advise using > osx in production anyway) and it's not directly related to Cassandra anyway > so you can easily use the beta version of snappy-java as a workaround if you > want to. So that non blocking issue aside, and as far as we know, Cassandra > supports Java 7. Is it rock-solid in production? Well, only repeated use in > production can tell, and that's not really in the hand of the project. We do > obviously encourage people to try Java 7 as much as possible and report any > problem they may run into, but I would have though this goes without saying. > > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Rob Coli <rc...@palominodb.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Drew Kutcharian <d...@venarc.com> wrote: >> > With Java 6 begin EOL-ed soon >> > (https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/end_of_public_updates_for), what's the >> > status of Cassandra's Java 7 support? Anyone using it in production? Any >> > outstanding *known* issues? >> >> I'd love to see an official statement from the project, due to the >> sort of EOL issues you're referring to. Unfortunately previous >> requests on this list for such a statement have gone unanswered. >> >> The non-official response is that various people run in production >> with Java 7 and it seems to work. :) >> >> =Rob >> >> -- >> =Robert Coli >> AIM>ALK - rc...@palominodb.com >> YAHOO - rcoli.palominob >> SKYPE - rcoli_palominodb > > -- Aaron Turner http://synfin.net/ Twitter: @synfinatic http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & Windows Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin "carpe diem quam minimum credula postero"
