diff --git a/xmlbeans-2.6.0-java8.patch b/xmlbeans-2.6.0-java8.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6772397
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xmlbeans-2.6.0-java8.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- build.xml	2015-02-15 03:12:23.105593326 +0100
++++ build.xml.java8	2015-02-15 03:16:59.857032487 +0100
+@@ -694,6 +694,7 @@
+                 <pathelement location="build/classes/configschema"/>
+                 <pathelement location="build/classes/toolschema"/>
+                 <pathelement location="build/classes/xsdschema"/>
++                <pathelement location="build/classes/typestore"/>
+             </classpath>
+         </javac>
+     </target>
diff --git a/xmlbeans.spec b/xmlbeans.spec
index 926483c..bcf99cf 100644
--- a/xmlbeans.spec
+++ b/xmlbeans.spec
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ Patch1:         0001-Update-to-newer-saxon-API.patch
 Patch2:         xmlbeans-2.6.0-iso-8859-1-encoding.patch
 Patch3:         xmlbeans-2.6.0-jsr-bundle.patch
 Patch4:         xmlbeans-scripts-classpath.patch
+# error: cannot access TypeStoreUser
+Patch5:         xmlbeans-2.6.0-java8.patch
+
 License:        ASL 2.0
 
 %if %without bootstrap
@@ -111,7 +114,7 @@ Requires:       %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
 %patch2 -p1
 %patch3 -p1
 %patch4 -p1
-
+%patch5 -p0
 
 %build
 # Piccolo and jam are rebuilt from source and bundled with xbean
@@ -133,7 +136,7 @@ ln -sf $(build-classpath saxon) external/lib/saxon9-dom.jar
 sed 's/\r//' -i LICENSE.txt NOTICE.txt README.txt docs/stylesheet.css docs/xmlbeans.css docs/guide/tools.html
 
 # Build
-ant -Djavac.source=1.5 -Djavac.target=1.5 default docs
+ant -Djavac.source=1.6 -Djavac.target=1.6 default docs
 
 %install
 # jar