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[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-12081) Considering Java 9

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12081?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14146542#comment-14146542 ] 

Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-12081:
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A number of "internal" {{com.sun}} classes will be removed, including Unsafe. These removals need to be handled or HBase will not be able to run on a Java 9 runtime. Doing this in a backwards compatible way may be tricky. I'm not sure how Oracle will navigate to where they want to go while dealing with unfixable user code breakage and I hope we have an opportunity to provide pushback on changes if required. 

I don't think we need to do anything today beyond track what others in the ecosystem are doing, for example 

> Considering Java 9
> ------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-12081
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12081
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Umbrella
>            Reporter: Andrew Purtell
>
> Java 9 will ship in 2016. This will be the first Java release that makes a significant compatibility departure from earlier runtimes. 



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