Github user DieBauer commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3703 Hi, I'm sorry for the late reaction. I haven't found the time to work on this anymore (also priorities shifted... ) Therefore this pull request is stale. (it still could be used as a reference). I think the main challenge is in serialising the java8 lambdas. And dropping the support for scala 2.10 and Java7 certainly helps in taming the pom.xml profiles. I will close this pull request to not keep the hopes up.
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