[AVRO-2043] Move to java8

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.0
• Component/s: java
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change
• Release Note: Avro java source and target levels are now 1.8
• Assignee: Gabor Szadovszky
• Reporter: Gabor Szadovszky
• Created: 16/Jun/17 07:14
• Updated: 12/Dec/17 07:52
• Resolved: 21/Jul/17 08:45

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

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #232
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #262