Given all the previous discussions about this, and assuming all points and counterpoints have already been sufficiently enumerated, I'd like to put it to a vote, explicitly:
Should we switch to JDK 1.7 for Accumulo 1.6.0, to take advantage of newer features (ACCUMULO-905), or should we continue to require that Accumulo 1.6.0 run on JRE 1.6? -- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii