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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:43:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Santhosh M S <santhosh_muthur@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Java 7 and Hadoop
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Resurrecting an old thread - now that JDK 6 is EOL should we switch over to=
 JDK 7 across the board?=0A=0AThoughts?=0A=0AThanks,=0ASanthosh=0A=0A=0A___=
_____________________________=0A From: Eli Collins <eli@cloudera.com>=0ATo:=
 common-dev@hadoop.apache.org =0ASent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 6:19 PM=0ASub=
ject: Re: Java 7 and Hadoop=0A =0A=0AWe should officially support it in Had=
oop (one piece of BIGTOP-458=0Awhich is for supporting it across the whole =
stack).=0ANow that HADOOP-8370 (fixes native compilation) is in the full ta=
rball=0Ashould work. A good next step would be updating JAVA_HOME on one of=
=0Athe Hadoop jenkins jobs to use jdk7.=0A=0A=0AOn Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:1=
7 AM, Thomas Graves <tgraves@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:=0A> I've seen more and m=
ore people using java 7.=A0 We are also planning to move=0A> to java 7 due =
to the eol of java 6 that Scott referenced.=0A>=0A> What are folks thoughts=
 on making it officially supported by Hadoop?=A0 Is=0A> there a process for=
 this or is it simply updating the wiki Eli mentioned=0A> after sufficient =
testing?=0A>=0A> Thanks,=0A> Tom=0A>=0A>=0A> On 4/26/12 4:25 PM, "Eli Colli=
ns" <eli@cloudera.com> wrote:=0A>=0A>> Hey Scott,=0A>>=0A>> Nice.=A0 Please=
 update this page with your experience when you get a chance:=0A>> http://w=
iki.apache.org/hadoop/HadoopJavaVersions=0A>>=0A>> Thanks,=0A>> Eli=0A>>=0A=
>>=0A>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.c=
om> wrote:=0A>>> Java 7 update 4 has been released.=A0 It is even available=
 for MacOS X from=0A>>> Oracle:=0A>>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/jav=
a/javase/downloads/jdk-7u4-downloads-159=0A>>> 1156.html=0A>>>=0A>>> Java 6=
 will reach end of life in about 6 months.=A0  After that point, there=0A>>=
> will be no more public updates from Oracle for Java 6, even security upda=
tes.=0A>>> https://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/updated_java_6_eol_date=0A=
>>> You can of course pay them for updates or build your own OpenJDK.=0A>>>=
=0A>>> The entire Hadoop ecosystem needs to test against Java 7 JDKs this y=
ear.=A0 I=0A>>> will be testing some small clusters of ours with JDK 7 in a=
bout a month, and=0A>>> my internal projects will start using Java 7 featur=
es shortly after.=0A>>>=0A>>>=0A>>> See the JDK roadmap:=0A>>> http://blogs=
.oracle.com/javaone/resource/java_keynote/slide_15_full_size.gif=0A>>> http=
s://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/moving_java_forward_java_strategy=0A>>>=0A>=
>>=0A>
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