There are additional patches available for Kepler SR2 officially.
In ecliplse, go to “Help” –> “Market Place” –> Search for java 8 kepler.
Then choose and install the following.
- install Java 8 support eclipse kepler sr2,
- Java 8 Facets for web tools eclipse kepler sr2
- Java 8 support for m2e for Eclipse Kepler SR2 (if required)
Reference: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/java8/
After this, my multi-module maven project with java 8 is building fine without any error in eclipse kepler SR2.
UPDATE: If you are using Spring Tool Suite (STS), then version 3.5.1 has included these features.