[CASSANDRA-8168] Require Java 8

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0 alpha 1
• Component/s: Local/Config
• Assignee: T Jake Luciani
• Reporter: T Jake Luciani

Authors

T Jake Luciani

• Created: 22/Oct/14 19:51
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 15/May/15 16:53

Description

This is to discuss requiring Java 8 for version >= 3.0

There are a couple big reasons for this.

• Better support for complex async work e.g (CASSANDRA-5239) http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/CompletableFuture.html

• Use Nashorn for Javascript UDFs CASSANDRA-7395

Sub-Tasks

• Configure multi-JDK8 build/test jenkins matrix job: Resolved