On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Steve Loughran <ste...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
>> > that's not going to go in the 2.x branch. Java 6 is still a common platform > that people are using, because historically java7 (or any leading edge java > version) is buggy. Given the fact that Java 6 is end of life, this is becoming more and more of a problem. Are there any plans to retire java 6 in hadoop? > that said, our QA team did test hadoop 2 & HDP-2 at scale on java7 and > openjdk 7, so it all works -it's just the commit "java7 only" is a big > decision that If openjdk 7 would work w/o hiccups, deployment would become so much easier, since that is already in all the linux distributions and you can avoid doing the oracle license dance during deployment. -- André
