Java 6 has been End of Life since Feb 2013. Java 7 (and 8, but unfortunately that's too new still) has very compelling features which can make development a lot easier.
The sooner more projects drop Java 6 the better, in my opinion :) On Nov 5, 2014, at 7:45 PM, Worthy LaFollette <wort...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mostly converted now to 1.7, this would be welcomed to get any new > features. > > On Wed Nov 05 2014 at 7:32:55 PM Joe Stein <joe.st...@stealth.ly> wrote: > >> This has been coming up in a lot of projects and for other reasons too I >> wanted to kick off the discussion about if/when we end support for Java 6. >> Besides any API we may want to use in >= 7 we also compile our binaries for >> 6 for release currently. >> >> /******************************************* >> Joe Stein >> Founder, Principal Consultant >> Big Data Open Source Security LLC >> http://www.stealth.ly >> Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> >> ********************************************/ >>
