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Latest revision as of 09:24, 18 March 2014
Starting with I20140318-0830 all Luna (4.4) builds on our downloads page contain the Eclipse support for Java™ 8. For Kepler SR2 (4.3.2) a feature patch needs to be installed. This page describes how to do this.
- Help > Install New Software...
- enter the following URL into the 'Work with' field:
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.3-P-builds/
- press 'Enter'
- select category 'Eclipse Java 8 Support (for Kepler SR2)'
- for faster install, deselect 'Contact all updates sites during install to find required software'
- click 'Next'
- click 'Next'
- accept the license
- click 'Finish'
- restart Eclipse when asked
In order to use the batch compiler only, you can follow the steps described at the link Using the batch compiler, but use the org.eclipse.jdt.core_3.9.50.v*.jar from your updated install.