Java 8 framework and Tools support

 

Following post if the draft , i am going to update it on ongoing basis as part of my learnings.

Updated 26 March 2014

Development tools

Eclipse Kelper SR2 supports Java8

 

Application servers

Tomcat

People have been running Java 8 with Tomcat

http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html

JBoss Wildfy

Comes with basic Java 8 support

http://www.wildfly.org/

Frameworks

Spring

Spring Framework 4.0 provides support for several Java 8 features. You can make use of lambda expressions and method references with Spring’s callback interfaces. There is first-class support for java.time (JSR-310), and several existing annotations have been retrofitted as @Repeatable. You can also use Java 8’s parameter name discovery (based on the -parameters compiler flag) as an alternative to compiling your code with debug information enabled.

http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/new-in-4.0.html

Links

http://spring.io/blog/2014/03/21/java-8-in-enterprise-projects