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From: Jim Kellerman <jim@powerset.com>
To: "core-dev@hadoop.apache.org" <core-dev@hadoop.apache.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:39:01 -0700
Subject: RE: [jira] Commented: (HADOOP-2325) Require Java 6
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I don't think that there is much in Java 6 that is needed to build Hadoop o=
r HBase. However, we use it for running them because the runtime is vastly =
improved esp. in terms of garbage collection.

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Jim Kellerman, Senior Engineer; Powerset


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel Daley (JIRA) [mailto:jira@apache.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:33 PM
> To: core-dev@hadoop.apache.org
> Subject: [jira] Commented: (HADOOP-2325) Require Java 6
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>     [
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2325?page=3Dcom.atl
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>
> Nigel Daley commented on HADOOP-2325:
> -------------------------------------
>
> Doug, should we mark this for 0.19?
>
> > Require Java 6
> > --------------
> >
> >                 Key: HADOOP-2325
> >                 URL:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2325
> >             Project: Hadoop Core
> >          Issue Type: Improvement
> >          Components: build
> >            Reporter: Doug Cutting
> >            Assignee: Doug Cutting
> >             Fix For: 0.18.0
> >
> >         Attachments: HADOOP-2325.patch
> >
> >
> > We should require Java 6 for release 0.17.  Java 6 is now
> available for OS/X.  Hadoop performs much better on Java 6.
> And, finally, there are features of Java 6 (like 'df') that
> would be nice to use.
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