[jira] [Updated] (AVRO-2043) Move to java8

["Gabor Szadovszky (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2043?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Gabor Szadovszky updated AVRO-2043:
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    Description: 
java6 is really old and java7 is already EOD for 2yrs. It is time to move to java8 in the next major release (1.9.0):
* update source/target to 1.8.0 in the pom.xml
* update the Dockerfile to used jdk8
* ensure that lang/java builds fine with jdk8
* ensure that all unit tests pass in lang/java with jdk8
* ensure that everything builds fine and tests pass by using the new docker image

  was:
java6 is really old and java7 is already EOD since 2yrs. It is time to move to java8 in the next major release (1.9.0):
* update source/target to 1.8.0 in the pom.xml
* update the Dockerfile to used jdk8
* ensure that everything builds fine with jdk8
* ensure that all unit tests pass


> Move to java8
> -------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-2043
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2043
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: java
>    Affects Versions: 1.9.0
>            Reporter: Gabor Szadovszky
>            Assignee: Gabor Szadovszky
>
> java6 is really old and java7 is already EOD for 2yrs. It is time to move to java8 in the next major release (1.9.0):
> * update source/target to 1.8.0 in the pom.xml
> * update the Dockerfile to used jdk8
> * ensure that lang/java builds fine with jdk8
> * ensure that all unit tests pass in lang/java with jdk8
> * ensure that everything builds fine and tests pass by using the new docker image



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