In addition, the DataStax official documentation states: "Versions earlier than 1.6.0_19 should not be used. Java 7 is not recommended."
http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/install/install_rpm On Dec 14, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Aaron Turner <synfina...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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"
