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[jira] [Created] (ZOOKEEPER-1963) Make JDK 7 the minimum requirement for Zookeeper

Edward Carter created ZOOKEEPER-1963:
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             Summary: Make JDK 7 the minimum requirement for Zookeeper
                 Key: ZOOKEEPER-1963
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1963
             Project: ZooKeeper
          Issue Type: Wish
            Reporter: Edward Carter


JDK 6 stopped receiving public updates in early 2013:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

I propose making JDK 7 the minimum for Zookeeper going forward.  One patch that I've personally submitted already would have been a good fit for Java 7's try-with-resources statement, and another pending patch fails to build on versions of Java prior to 7 because a unit test in it uses InetAddress.getLoopbackAddress(), which would be awkward to replace.  I'm sure there are many other examples.



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