Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-hadoop-common-dev-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39B7DCA94 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:35:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 34685 invoked by uid 500); 17 Jul 2012 19:35:56 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-dev-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 34549 invoked by uid 500); 17 Jul 2012 19:35:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact common-dev-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 34541 invoked by uid 99); 17 Jul 2012 19:35:56 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:35:56 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: unknown -allip4:64.6.108.239 (athena.apache.org: encountered unrecognized mechanism during SPF processing of domain of hsn@filez.com) Received: from [64.6.108.239] (HELO ponto.amerinoc.com) (64.6.108.239) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:35:48 +0000 Received: from fbsd8.localdomain (205.83.broadband7.iol.cz [88.102.83.205]) (authenticated bits=128) by ponto.amerinoc.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q6HJZMdG036100 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:35:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hsn@filez.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([10.0.0.1]) by fbsd8.localdomain (8.14.5/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q6HJZHds011528 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:35:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hsn@filez.com) Message-ID: <5005BE6D.4020200@filez.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:35:09 +0200 From: Radim Kolar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Shifting to Java 7 . Is it good choice? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120717-0, 17.07.2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org > I have to tweak a few classes and for this I needed few packages which > are > only present in Java 7 like "java.nio.file" , So I was wondering If I can > shift my > development environment of Hadoop to Java 7? Would this break anything ? openjdk 7 works, but nio async file access is slower then traditional.