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Bug 358387

Summary: Add support for Java SE 8 features
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Dani Megert <daniel_megert>
Component: CoreAssignee: Srikanth Sankaran <srikanth_sankaran>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: amj87.iitr, deepakazad, john.arthorne, markus.kell.r, mikko.tiihonen, nrutherford, remy.suen, stephan.herrmann
Version: 3.8Keywords: plan
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
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Description Dani Megert CLA 2011-09-21 05:49:03 EDT 
3.8.

The next Java SE release is version 8, which is currently scheduled for October 2012. This release is expected to contain extensions to the Java language, including support for lambda expressions, default methods, annotations on types, a modularity system and minor language changes. 

Eclipse Java development tooling will make progress towards compiling, editing and launching applications for Java 8 for those parts which have publicly available specifications. Work in progress will be made available as feature patches for early adopters while we work towards the official Java SE 8 release.
Comment 1 Ayushman Jain CLA 2012-02-03 05:46:28 EST 
*** Bug 370537 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Dani Megert CLA 2012-05-22 02:00:48 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 380190 ***
Comment 3 John Arthorne CLA 2012-06-06 13:37:29 EDT 
Just for reference since this bug is linked from the Eclipse project Juno plan: This plan item was deferred for the Juno release. Bug 380190 tracks work towards Java 8 support in Kepler (June 2013) and beyond.