[ACCUMULO-4299] Switch to Java 1.8 (Java 8)

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: build
• Assignee: Christopher Tubbs
• Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
• Created: 05/May/16 18:17
• Updated: 06/May/16 02:56
• Resolved: 06/May/16 02:56

Description

In this mailing list thread, we agreed creating a branch from master for 1.8, so that the master branch could move to support changes which require Java 8.

This task bumps the Java dependency to 1.8.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: ACCUMULO-4177 TinyLFU-based BlockCache

Sub-Tasks

• Use JDK8 modernizer suggestions: Resolved