[eclipse-dev] Official Eclipse Support for Java 8

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Eclipse top-level project is very proud
to announce official support for Java™
8. Starting with I20140318-0830
all Luna (4.4) builds contain the Eclipse support for Java™
8. For Kepler SR2 (4.3.2) a feature
patch is available. For future
builds visit our downloads
page.

The Java™
8 support contains the following:
- Eclipse compiler implements all the
new Java™
8 language enhancements.
- Significant features, like Search
and Refactoring, have been updated to support Java™
8.
- Quick Assist and Clean Up to migrate
anonymous class creations to lambda expressions and back.
- New formatter options for lambdas.

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


Big thanks to everyone who worked
on this effort!