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By Barnaby Golden , 10 June, 2014

A word of caution for anyone switching to Java 8 (which is now officially released by Sun).

Issues I have found so far:

Eclipse

The previous version of Kepler Eclipse runs with Java 8, but it only understands compliance levels up to Java 7.

By Barnaby Golden , 19 June, 2013

With the basic application in place it is now time to focus on testing. First up we add a Cucumber acceptance test. It is a good idea to keep your acceptance tests separate from your unit tests, so I tend to run them in the integration-test phase of Maven. To do this use the failsafe plugin, adding something like this to your pom: