[Swift-devel] Moving from Java 1.6 to 1.7

[Michael Wilde]

I just saw this note on an OSG list, and thought we may want to consider this transition for Swift testing, and for package/module and other setup issues on the various sites where we more closely support Swift.

- Mike

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From: "Wei Yang" <yangw at slac.stanford.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:19:11 PM
Subject: java 1.6 and OSG software at SLAC

As many of you aware, Oracle will no longer support Java 1.6. As a result, SLAC required all applications to move away from java 1.6 as quickly as possible. At SLAC, so far we are able to move to Java 1.7 (x86_64) with the following OSG software:

RPM based bestman2; 
replace JAVA_HOME in/etc/sysconfig/bestman2. note: bestman2 expects JAVA_HOME/bin/java

Pacman based osg 1.2.29/vdt-2.0.0p36 CE/GIP
Pacman based osg 1.2.28/vdt-2.0.0p35 GUMS 1.3.17
make $VDT_LOCATION/jdk1.6 a symlink to Java 1.7. note tomcat expects $VDT_LOCATION/jdk1.6/bin/java

regards,
Wei Yang  |  yangw at slac.stanford.edu  |  650-926-3338(O)