A few weeks back Eclipse launched their Java 8 Support for Eclipse Kepler.
Its a great page with links to various resources about Java 8 and how to install the various components into Eclipse.
The four components you want to install if you are doing web/java development for Eclipse are the ones covering:
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Java core (JDT)
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Java Web Tools (WTP)
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Maven (m2e)
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OSGI (PDE)
For now those need to be installed individually.
We wanted to make that even simpler.
Thus today we deployed our Java 8 packaged install and update site which does not require you to do four different installs.
There are two ways to use this. Using JBoss Central or the composite update site.
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Open JBoss Central
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Click Software/Update
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Choose Java 8
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Click Install
You will then be shown a screen where you can choose to install all or select a subset.
If you have JBoss Tools installed the recommended way is that you install them all since then you get the best Java 8 coverage possible in Eclipse.
If you do not want to use JBoss Central you can also use this update site directly:
http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/kepler/central/java8/
Please note that this site includes plugins for 'm2e' with "Optional" in their name which are only relevant if you are an Eclipse plugin developer. You can skip those - just there for completeness.
We know that Java 8 support is not fully working for WildFly 8 server adapter in our Kepler based JBoss Tools version - if you want to use that try out our recent builds of JBoss Tools for Luna where this is being supported.
But otherwise you can now build and run Java 8 projects with JBoss Tools for Eclipse Kepler today.
Have fun!
Max Rydahl Andersen
@maxandersen