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Believed to have substantial problems due to ASM 5 being required. ASM5 has a tentative release date in march, with a current beta version and possibly another beta later.

maven-compiler-plugin

The current compiler plugin should work on java8, as long as you stay away from the error-prone compiler. The compiler plugin IT's fail on JDK8 because the error-prone-compiler does not work with JDK8. plexus-compiler has adaptations for error-prone on branch MCOMPILER217, but error prone IT fails on m-c-p. https://code.google.com/p/error-prone/issues/detail?id=224

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