Hi All, JDK6 has been officially put end of life by Oracle more then 2 years ago (February 2013). Other projects in Hadoop ecosystems have already dropped JDK6 support - for example Hadoop [1], HBase [2] or Pig[3] and hence I would like to kick off discussion to do the same in Sqoop as well.
What exactly that would mean for our users: * User would need to use at least JDK7 on the runtime - we’re spawning mapreduce job, so entire cluster would have to be running on at least JDK7 What would that mean for Sqoop developers: * We would change our build scripts to use -source and -target 1.7 [4] preventing the compilation with JDK6 * We could use JDK7 specific language features in the source code [5] What do you think? Jarcec Links: 1: http://markmail.org/thread/ytisa4w73ym4ee65 2: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11666 3: http://markmail.org/message/4pdyv22bimh5ae7n 4: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/tools/windows/javac.html 5: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/language/enhancements.html
