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Michael Allen commented on ACCUMULO-905: ---------------------------------------- It was. Thanks for the pointer. I'm still uneasy about the idea of having the only supported version be a version back. > Switch to Java 1.7 > ------------------ > > Key: ACCUMULO-905 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-905 > Project: Accumulo > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Christopher Tubbs > Assignee: Christopher Tubbs > Labels: java, jdk1.7 > Fix For: 1.6.0 > > Attachments: ACCUMULO-905-1.patch > > Original Estimate: 5m > Time Spent: 0.05h > Remaining Estimate: 2m > > As 1.7 becomes the default Java in more and more operating systems, and > security-related bugfixes and other fixes in Java itself are targeted more > towards newer versions, rather than maintaining older versions, it would be > prudent to switch to using 1.7 as our target platform. > This change would allow us to leverage some of the newer features of Java. > This change can be established at the beginning of the development cycle for > Accumulo 1.6.0, so that we can immediately begin taking advantage of the new > Java features in 1.6.0 features after 1.5.0 is released. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira