orfjackal/retrolambda — pull request #24 by talios (2014-07-18 02:28:10+00:00)
Title: Added support for maven toolchains

Adds support of using the [Maven Toolchains plugin](http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-toolchains-plugin/) for overriding/defining the JDK to use.

This lets one run maven under JDK7 but _use_ Java 8 for compilation. Under this scenario, retrolambda will attempt to run under JDK7 ( or the default JAVA_HOME ) and fail with a class format error.