Yes, Kafka builds against 1.6.
/******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop ********************************************/ > On May 28, 2014, at 7:42 PM, Weide Zhang <weo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > According to the Kafka documentation, seems Java 1.7 is recommended. But > for our production environment we are still using java 1.6. Will that be a > problem of using java 1.6 and use Kafka 0.8.1.1 ? > > Thanks a lot, > > Weide