That was really helpful. @Robert: No I am just working on a research project, I am not checking the code into Hadoop. Thanks Radim and Robert.
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Robert Evans <ev...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > Oracle is dropping java 6 support by the end of the year. So there is > likely to be a big shift to java 7 before then. Currently Hadoop > officially supports java 6 so unless there is an official change of > position you cannot use Java 7 specific APIs if you want to check your > code into Hadoop. Hadoop currently should work on 7, like Radim said, and > if you are building something on top of Hadoop it is fine, but if we are > dropping support for java 6 that will require some discussion on the > mailing lists. > > --Bobby Evans > > On 7/17/12 2:35 PM, "Radim Kolar" <h...@filez.com> wrote: > > > > >> 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. > > -- --With Regards Pavan Kulkarni
