This is the community's fix for using Java 8.

Community bug:

https://github.com/junit-team/junit/issues/749

Community code:

https://github.com/stefanbirkner/junit/commit/69de4c23996fe320e8345f273e2e35e529f0fdf3

--- junit-r4.11/src/main/java/org/junit/internal/MethodSorter.java.orig	Thu Oct  9 11:09:18 2014

+++ junit-r4.11/src/main/java/org/junit/internal/MethodSorter.java	Thu Oct  9 11:14:09 2014

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@

 package org.junit.internal;

 import java.lang.reflect.Method;

-import java.util.Arrays;

+import java.util.ArrayList;

+import java.util.Collections;

 import java.util.Comparator;

+import java.util.List;

 import org.junit.FixMethodOrder;

@@ -52,11 +54,16 @@

         Comparator<Method> comparator = getSorter(clazz.getAnnotation(FixMethodOrder.class));

         Method[] methods = clazz.getDeclaredMethods();

+        List<Method> x = new ArrayList<Method>();

+        for (Method method : methods)

+            if (!method.isBridge() && !method.isSynthetic())

+                x.add(method);

+

         if (comparator != null) {

-            Arrays.sort(methods, comparator);

+            Collections.sort(x, comparator);

         }

-        return methods;

+        return x.toArray(new Method[x.size()]);

     }

     private MethodSorter() {