[NUTCH-1920] Upgrade Nutch to use Java 1.7

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3, 1.10
• Fix Version/s: 1.10, 2.3.1
• Component/s: build
• Assignee: Lewis John McGibbney
• Reporter: Lewis John McGibbney
• Created: 16/Jan/15 19:10
• Updated: 13/Mar/24 14:51
• Resolved: 28/Jan/15 00:26

Description

In order to build the Nutch Javadoc securely, we rely upon no less than Java version 7u25 or greater. See NUTCH-1590.
indexer-elastic also requires a JDK 1.7 in order compile.
We should make the upgrade and state support for Java 1.7 based on the following announcement from Oracle

End of Public Updates for Oracle JDK 7

The April 2015 CPU release will be the last Oracle JDK 7 publicly available update. For more information, and details on how to receive longer term support for Oracle JDK 7, please see the Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap.