I'm using Eclipse 4.3.2 with the patches for Java 8 from, along with m2e and Subclipse, completely updated to the latest versions of everything.
I went into the Maven POMs for our project and changed the maven-compiler-plugin to:
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
I updated all my Maven projects tried to do a complete clean and build. Errors all over the place. Ignoring the internal compiler error for the moment, the error I see most is:
Syntax error, static imports are only available if source level is 1.5 or greater
I'm running Java 1.8---why am I getting this message? Is m2e to blame? The maven-compiler-plugin? Or is Eclipse Java 1.8 support simply not ready for prime time?