Original comment posted by eaftan@google.com on 2014-01-29 at 10:14 PM

Liam is working on Java 8 compatibility for error-prone. We're still hammering out how we want it to work. The javac API changes make it kind of hairy.

Status: Started
Owner: cushon@google.com

Original comment posted by eaftan@google.com on 2014-03-04 at 01:00 AM

Liam has completed the work for javac8. He'll try to reproduce and make sure it's fixed.

Original comment posted by prateekjainaa on 2014-07-26 at 07:32 AM

which exact version of java8 work fine with maven compiler plugin?

Original comment posted by cushon@google.com on 2014-07-29 at 05:32 PM

Error-prone builds with jdk8, but versions built with jdk8 aren't compatible at runtime with jdk7. We haven't decided what the best way to distribute the jdk8 compatible version is. Options include a separate maven artifact for jdk8, or bundling the jdk7 and jdk8 versions together and loading the right one at runtime.

It's possible to experiment with error-prone and java 8 now if you don't mind building it yourself. You'll need to:

1. grab a copy of error-prone and https://github.com/sonatype/plexus-compiler

2. install a local copy of error-prone built with java 8:
   $ cd error-prone
   $ export JAVA_HOME=<your JDK8 home> && mvn clean install

3. Install a local copy of the plexus-compiler plugin, but with error-prone 8. First, update plexus-compilers/plexus-compiler-javac-errorprone/pom.xml to use the version of error-prone you just built, currently 1.1.3-SNAPSHOT. Then build and install the plugin.

4. Update the project using error-prone to use the versions of plexus-compiler and error-prone that you just built, set JAVA_HOME to jdk8, and build your project.

Duplicate of #246