Is it possible to use Scala 2.11 and Java 8? I'm able to get our project to compile correctly, however there are runtime errors with the Reflectasm library (I'm guessing due to Kyro). I looked into the error and it seems Spark had the same issue ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6152, https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/reflectasm/issues/35) because of an outdated version of Kyro.
I'm also unsure if maybe we have to build Flink with Scala 2.11 ( https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-0.10/setup/building.html) in order to run Flink correctly with Java 8. Cheers, Cory