Does spring batch support Java 8?

Question

I would like to know which version of spring batch is compatible with Java 8.
Is the latest version of spring batch 2 compatible with Java 8?
Does spring batch 3 support Java 8?

Best Regards,
Yas

Answer 1

Spring Batchs own documentation provides an answer to this. Deducing from the written documentation, I would assume Spring Batch 2 does not support Java 8.

Taken from the documentation itself

The Spring Batch 3.0 release has five major themes:

• JSR-352 Support

• Upgrade to Support Spring 4 and Java 8

• Promote Spring Batch Integration to Spring Batch

• JobScope Support

• SQLite Support

Further in the documentation, under section 2.3, the following is stated:

Spring Batch now supports being run on Java 8. It will still execute on Java 6 or higher as well.

Source: Spring Batch Documentation