I used to use Roo for starting new projects and want to advocate for in our company, however I've stumbled upon the fact that it does not support Java 8 and there is a ticket for it: https://jira.spring.io/browse/ROO-3505 I found it some time ago and recently I went to check if it was updated and was surprised that it is still there. I paid attention though that the latest version of Spring Roo was released in January 2014 (1.2.5) and there were no more bug fixes or feature releases since. It is especially strange in the light of the fact that recent Spring Core was significantly updated to support Java 8 last year (version 4.0.0 was released in December 2013)
Does it mean that Spring Roo project is dead and Spring Source has no plans to support it?
Some months ago DISID and Pivotal reached an agreement on Roo project. Take a look at http://blog.gopivotal.com/pivotal/news-2/disid-to-lead-spring-roo-project
Posted on April 24, 2014
We are happy to announce that Pivotal and DISID will collaborate on further development of the Spring Roo project. Roo will continue in its goal of providing a code-generation style of RAD framework, focused on helping developers get Java projects done on time. Pivotal and DISID have been collaborating around Roo for some time, so we’re excited to be formalizing what originally was an informal, developer led partnership, a partnership that DISID is committed to.