+1 The Streams API and new Date API are worthy. Would love to (eventually) see a ProcessSession method that can return a Stream<FlowFile>.
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > Would like to kick off a discussion for thoughts on moving the minimum > Java requirement for NiFi to Java 8. There are a two immediate > reasons that make this seem wise: > > 1) Java 7 EOL and specifically for security fixes > https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_7.xml > > 2) Key dependencies moving to Java8 > https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jetty-announce/msg00080.html > > Now, item 1 does not mean we must move our minimum to Java 8 but item > 2 does. Java 8 offers some nice language enhancements which could be > quite useful within the framework. > > I propose we make this change happen in NiFi 0.3.x line. > > Thanks > Joe >
