The future: Java 9 and the disappearance of CLASSPATH

[Russell Bateman <ru...@windofkeltia.com>]

We're very new to Cassandra.

We implement org.apache.index.Indexdropping a JAR containing our 
custom-index service into Cassandra's /lib/ subdirectory because this 
subdirectory is on the classpath. It's early days yet, but I thought I'd 
ask about the plans for Java 9 given that Jigsaw sort of closes the door 
on classpath (though it doesn't shut and lock it absolutely).

What are Cassandra's plans in this direction? Do I have anything to fear 
long-term? Given the importance of Stratio's Lucene index extension, 
which uses this mechanism too, I'd guess no one wants to do anything 
that would destroy that either, but I need to ask.

Many thanks,

Russ

Re: The future: Java 9 and the disappearance of CLASSPATH

[Nate McCall <zz...@gmail.com>]

There are several other components that function similarly (compaction
strategies, snitches, UDFs, etc.). I don't see us doing anything
different without a compelling reason.

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 3:06 AM, Russell Bateman <ru...@windofkeltia.com> wrote:
> We're very new to Cassandra.
>
> We implement org.apache.index.Indexdropping a JAR containing our
> custom-index service into Cassandra's /lib/ subdirectory because this
> subdirectory is on the classpath. It's early days yet, but I thought I'd ask
> about the plans for Java 9 given that Jigsaw sort of closes the door on
> classpath (though it doesn't shut and lock it absolutely).
>
> What are Cassandra's plans in this direction? Do I have anything to fear
> long-term? Given the importance of Stratio's Lucene index extension, which
> uses this mechanism too, I'd guess no one wants to do anything that would
> destroy that either, but I need to ask.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Russ
>

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