Announcing test of Java 7-based packages

OSG community:



To help OSG admins migrate from the now-unsupported Java version 6, the OSG

Software team has prepared and tested new builds of all Java packages using

Java version 7 (specifically OpenJDK 7). Today, we are announcing that the

new packages are ready for broad testing by the community.



Because sites may not want to install the new Java packages immediately, we

are providing the packages in our separate Upcoming repositories. That is,

the packages are currently in the "osg-upcoming-testing" repo and will move

to production initially in the "osg-upcoming" repo.



If you are eager to migrate away from Java 6, please help us by testing the

new Java 7 packages! For documentation on installing or upgrading, see our

preliminary instructions at:



https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/InstallSoftwareWithOpenJDK7



The main software components affected by this project are:



* BeStMan 2

* dCache and BeStMan SRM clients

* GUMS

* Gratia service

* HDFS (aka hadoop-0.20)

* Pegasus

* VOMS (specifically, VOMS Admin)



The full list of packages undergoing testing is provided below.



The following packages were rebuilt and put in osg-upcoming-testing:



bestman2

cog-jglobus-axis

dcache-srmclient

emi-trustmanager

emi-trustmanager-axis

emi-trustmanager-tomcat

glite-data-transfer-interface

glite-security-trustmanager

glite-security-util-java

gratia

gums

hadoop-0.20

jclassads

jetty

jglobus

joda-time

ndt

osg-ce

osg-client

osg-gridftp-xrootd

osg-se-bestman

osg-se-bestman-xrootd

osg-wn-client

pegasus

slf4j

voms-admin-server

voms-api-java

xrootd-hdfs



For more information, please see:



https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Java6Migration_draft



We welcome feedback on issues you encounter with the new packages at

or .