Re: [Bigdata-developers] Java 7?

[Jeremy J C. <jj...@sy...>]

well then supporting 6 and 7 costs money (in principle) with no benefit … seems like an easy decision!

Jeremy J Carroll
Principal Architect
Syapse, Inc.



On Aug 28, 2013, at 12:17 PM, Bryan Thompson <br...@sy...> wrote:

> All paying customers have upgraded long ago….
> 
> Bryan
> 
> From: Jeremy Carroll <jj...@sy...>
> Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 3:15 PM
> To: Bryan Thompson <br...@sy...>
> Cc: "Big...@li..." <Big...@li...>
> Subject: Re: [Bigdata-developers] Java 7?
> 
> I am generally using java 7 and I am pretty happy. 
> Isn't this more about whether customers are happy to upgrade or not? (i.e. a business rather than a technical decision)
> 
> Jeremy J Carroll
> Principal Architect
> Syapse, Inc.
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 28, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Bryan Thompson <br...@sy...> wrote:
> 
>> Any thoughts on switching to Java 7 as a requirement?  So far we have maintained Java 6 compatibility.  However, there are new threading patterns in Java 7 that could be very useful.  There is also the asynchronous file IO support.  Java 7 had some very bad initial releases, but seems to be Ok now and Oracle has sunset Java 6.  
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Bryan
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