Take a look at this work by jooq: http://blog.jooq.org/2014/03/21/java-8-friday-java-8-will-revolutionize-database-access/ http://blog.jooq.org/2014/03/21/java

Take a look at this work by jooq: http://blog.jooq.org/2014/03/21/java-8-friday-java-8-will-revolutionize-database-access/ http://blog.jooq.org/2014/03/21/java-8-friday-java-8-will-re... You may be able to utilize a lot of their code for converting the lambda bytecode.. or not. Anyway it's interesting to see how they're dealing with the problem you've run into.