[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-692) Move minimum requirement of Java to Java 8

["Mark Payne (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Mark Payne commented on NIFI-692:
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A discussion was started on the dev mailing list about this concept a while ago. A consensus was reached that this should happen in 1.0.0. This change already was made in one of the previous commits for the 1.x baseline, so I will close this ticket as resolved.

> Move minimum requirement of Java to Java 8
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: NIFI-692
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-692
>             Project: Apache NiFi
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: Core Framework, Documentation & Website, Tools and Build
>            Reporter: Joseph Witt
>            Assignee: Joseph Witt
>             Fix For: 1.0.0
>
>
> All,
> Would like to kick off a discussion for thoughts on moving the minimum
> Java requirement for NiFi to Java 8.  There are a two immediate
> reasons that make this seem wise:
> 1) Java 7 EOL and specifically for security fixes
>   https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_7.xml
> 2) Key dependencies moving to Java8
>   https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jetty-announce/msg00080.html
> Now, item 1 does not mean we must move our minimum to Java 8 but item
> 2 does.  Java 8 offers some nice language enhancements which could be
> quite useful within the framework.
> I propose we make this change happen in NiFi 0.3.x line.
> Thanks



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