Created a JIRA for this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-692
Will keep it up to date if any gotchas come out of this discussion. On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Adam Taft <[email protected]> wrote: > +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 >>
