FYI This has been made in trunk. There was already a discussion regarding EOL of Java 6, etc since last year [1]. Making the change to 7 in trunk for the upcoming release. [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ctakes-dev/201306.mbox/%3CCDD26E0F.1B239%25mcoarr%40mitre.org%3E --Pei