diff --git a/.classpath b/.classpath
index 8448958a5..db19c50be 100644
--- a/.classpath
+++ b/.classpath
@@ -80,12 +80,12 @@
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/poi-3.13-20150929.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/poi-ooxml-3.13-20150929.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/poi-ooxml-schemas-3.13-20150929.jar"/>
-	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="extensions/jython/module/MOD-INF/lib/jython-standalone-2.7.1.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="main/tests/data"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/swc-parser-lazy-3.1.5-jar-with-dependencies.jar" sourcepath="main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib-src/swc-parser-lazy-3.1.5-sources.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/jackson-annotations-2.9.1.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/jackson-core-2.9.1.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/jackson-databind-2.9.1.jar"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.8"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="output" path="main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes"/>
 </classpath>
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 6cdda7774..02336ce48 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 language: java
 jdk:
   - oraclejdk8
-  - openjdk7
 
 env:
   # encrypted Codacy key, see https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/encryption-keys/
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 1ab5bc239..1151ff7ca 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     <property name="build.dir" value="build"/>
     <property name="dist.dir" value="dist"/>
 
-    <property name="java_version" value="1.7"/>
+    <property name="java_version" value="1.8"/>
 
     <property name="appengine.app_id" value="openrefine-broker"/>
     <property name="appengine.version" value="1"/>
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@
             <classPath mainClass="com.google.refine.Refine">
                 <cp>server/lib/*.jar</cp>
             </classPath>
-            <jre minVersion="1.6.0" jdkPreference="preferJre" initialHeapSize="256" maxHeapSize="1024">
+            <jre minVersion="1.8.0" jdkPreference="preferJre" initialHeapSize="256" maxHeapSize="1024">
                 <opt>-Djava.library.path=server/lib/native/windows </opt>
             </jre>
             <versionInfo
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@
             classname="net.sourceforge.pmd.ant.PMDTask"
             classpathref="pmd.path" 
         />
-        <pmd rulesetfiles="${conf.dir}/pmd.rules.xml" targetjdk="1.6" encoding="UTF-8">
+        <pmd rulesetfiles="${conf.dir}/pmd.rules.xml" targetjdk="1.8" encoding="UTF-8">
             <formatter type="html" toFile="${reports.dir}/pmd.html" toConsole="true"/>
             <fileset dir="${server.src.dir}">
                 <include name="**/*.java"/>
diff --git a/refine.ini b/refine.ini
index 9ef26216f..cd62254d2 100644
--- a/refine.ini
+++ b/refine.ini
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ REFINE_MIN_MEMORY=1400M
 
 # Some sample configurations. These have no defaults.
 #ANT_HOME=C:\grefine\tools\apache-ant-1.8.1
-#JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25
+#JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_151
 #JAVA_OPTIONS=-XX:+UseParallelGC -verbose:gc -Drefine.headless=true
 #JAVA_OPTIONS=-Drefine.data_dir=C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\OpenRefine