move to Java 7

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This is to provide a place holder for considering moving ClearTK to Java 7.  We 
don't have any super compelling reasons to move at this point.  There are some 
nice features in Java 7 that we could start using.  Here is a nice summary:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/jdk7-relnotes-418459.html

If there is some feature in Java 7 that you would like to be able to use in 
ClearTK, then please make note of it here to help us weight whether or not it 
is time to make the change.  

One thing that Steve mentioned as a possible reason not to upgrade is that Java 
6 and Android are fairly compatible.  It would be interesting to find out of 
Java liblinear and the cleartk-ml project could run on Android.  This is just 
speculation...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by phi...@ogren.info on 28 Mar 2013 at 7:37

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This issue was closed by revision 6bdc5a9eb72a.

Original comment by steven.b...@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2013 at 12:36

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Just a note that we agreed to upgrade to Java 7 because, among other things, it 
would allow us to use my time normalization code, which depends on the Java 7 
backport of the Java 8 time library.

Original comment by steven.b...@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2013 at 12:36

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One little bit of Java 7 goodness that we might find useful are the new methods 
Locale.toLanguageTag() and forLanguageTag().

Original comment by phi...@ogren.info on 26 Oct 2013 at 4:15

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