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() {