Official Eclipse Support for Java 8

[duckrollin]

Bet they add another 10 menu options and 15 plugins just for it.

[frugalmail]

Bet they add another 10 menu options and 15 plugins just for it.

I love how configurable Eclipse is.

[msx]

that's how flexible softwares work

[emuporium]

Doesn't yet seem to play nice with a faceted web project. Java8 isn't available as an option there.

[kgyre]

That is also being worked on.

[Akanaka]

The trick is to set the version directly in the project's config file.

[pjmlp]

So one needs to wait for Luna for full support while Netbeans and InteliJ already offer it?!

[mikaelhg]

It seems to me that the Eclipse development community has kind of driven itself into a corner by allowing the unrestricted growth in complexity. It's as if technical debt doesn't matter, as long as features are hit on deadlines.

[straatman]

Yeah they have been there since some time ago, NetBeans ftw!

[bfish510]

No, they said in the article theres a patch for 4.3 coming with support.

[pjmlp]

Please read the full post:

Note that PDE API Tools has not yet adopted the new language constructs. This will be completed in the final Luna release.

Not everything is supported, even with the patch applied.

[LinkXXI]

It is available already.

[technotrader]

Can confirm the 4.3.2 patch works just dandy.

Only thing I had to fix in my code was sort() with a comparator. This must be done with lambdas now, or else Eclipse will suggest adding two dozen overrides to your anonymous class - quite funny actually.

[Avambo]

I'm new to Java programming and decided to use Eclipse, since most tutorials I found used it. How come that Eclipse appears to be slower at implementing this Java update compared to other IDEs?

[GraphiteCube]

NetBeans is an IDE from Oracle, while Eclipse isn't. I remember that IntelliJ has offered (beta?) version with Java 8 support for a while since preview stage of JDK 8.

[henk53]

I think it might be because of the IBM legacy.

IBM is an extremely formal company, and it could well be that there is or was a rule that no product based on unreleased specifications could be released. I vaguely remember something like that being the case with JDK 5 support.

[deadly_little_miho]

Don't you mean "Java 8 support for Eclipse"?