[jira] [Updated] (ACCUMULO-905) Switch to Java 1.7

["Christopher Tubbs (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-905?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Christopher Tubbs updated ACCUMULO-905:
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    Status: In Progress  (was: Patch Available)

The consensus from the [mailing list thread|http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/accumulo-dev/201403.mbox/%3CCAL5zq9b6OqpC7skLtLbPSxKBwoBZAw7Gq9ue9Lh=mBF0zZHE5w@mail.gmail.com%3E] seems to be to move forward with JDK7 in the master branch.

> Switch to Java 1.7
> ------------------
>
>                 Key: ACCUMULO-905
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-905
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
>            Assignee: Christopher Tubbs
>              Labels: java, jdk1.7
>             Fix For: 1.7.0
>
>         Attachments: ACCUMULO-905-1.patch
>
>   Original Estimate: 5m
>          Time Spent: 0.05h
>  Remaining Estimate: 2m
>
> As 1.7 becomes the default Java in more and more operating systems, and security-related bugfixes and other fixes in Java itself are targeted more towards newer versions, rather than maintaining older versions, it would be prudent to switch to using 1.7 as our target platform.
> This change would allow us to leverage some of the newer features of Java.
> This change can be established at the beginning of the development cycle for Accumulo 1.6.0, so that we can immediately begin taking advantage of the new Java features in 1.6.0 features after 1.5.0 is released.



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