diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 75830c6c..2de21486 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
 
         <dist.key>DATACOUCH</dist.key>
 
-        <couchbase>2.2.7</couchbase>
-        <couchbase.osgi>2.2.7</couchbase.osgi>
+        <couchbase>2.2.8</couchbase>
+        <couchbase.osgi>2.2.8</couchbase.osgi>
         <springdata.commons>1.13.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</springdata.commons>
         <validation>1.0.0.GA</validation>
     </properties>
diff --git a/src/integration/java/org/springframework/data/couchbase/core/CouchbaseTemplateTests.java b/src/integration/java/org/springframework/data/couchbase/core/CouchbaseTemplateTests.java
index 9668a851..df532d6b 100644
--- a/src/integration/java/org/springframework/data/couchbase/core/CouchbaseTemplateTests.java
+++ b/src/integration/java/org/springframework/data/couchbase/core/CouchbaseTemplateTests.java
@@ -17,17 +17,13 @@
 package org.springframework.data.couchbase.core;
 
 import static com.couchbase.client.java.query.Select.select;
-import static com.couchbase.client.java.query.dsl.Expression.i;
-import static com.couchbase.client.java.query.dsl.Expression.s;
-import static com.couchbase.client.java.query.dsl.Expression.x;
+import static com.couchbase.client.java.query.dsl.Expression.*;
 import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
 import static org.hamcrest.core.IsEqual.equalTo;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
-import java.util.Collection;
-import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.LinkedList;
@@ -35,10 +31,6 @@ import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Random;
 import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
-import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
-import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
-import java.util.concurrent.Future;
-import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
 
 import com.couchbase.client.java.Bucket;
@@ -48,6 +40,7 @@ import com.couchbase.client.java.query.N1qlParams;
 import com.couchbase.client.java.query.N1qlQuery;
 import com.couchbase.client.java.query.N1qlQueryResult;
 import com.couchbase.client.java.query.consistency.ScanConsistency;
+import com.couchbase.client.java.repository.annotation.Field;
 import com.couchbase.client.java.view.Stale;
 import com.couchbase.client.java.view.ViewQuery;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
@@ -64,7 +57,6 @@ import org.springframework.data.annotation.Version;
 import org.springframework.data.couchbase.IntegrationTestApplicationConfig;
 import org.springframework.data.couchbase.core.convert.MappingCouchbaseConverter;
 import org.springframework.data.couchbase.core.mapping.Document;
-import com.couchbase.client.java.repository.annotation.Field;
 import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
 import org.springframework.test.context.TestExecutionListeners;
 import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
@@ -499,6 +491,27 @@ public class CouchbaseTemplateTests {
 		assertNull(template.findById(id, DocumentWithTouchOnRead.class));
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @see DATACOUCH-227
+	 */
+	@Test
+	public void shouldRetainOrderWhenQueryingViewOrdered() {
+		ViewQuery q = ViewQuery.from("test_beers", "by_name");
+		q.descending().includeDocsOrdered(true);
+
+		String prev = null;
+		List<Beer> beers = template.findByView(q, Beer.class);
+		assertTrue(q.isIncludeDocs());
+		assertTrue(q.isOrderRetained());
+		assertEquals(RawJsonDocument.class, q.includeDocsTarget());
+		for (Beer beer : beers) {
+			if (prev != null) {
+				assertThat(beer.getName() + " not alphabetically < to " + prev, beer.getName().compareTo(prev) < 0);
+			}
+			prev = beer.getName();
+		}
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * A sample document with just an id and property.
 	 */
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/couchbase/core/CouchbaseTemplate.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/couchbase/core/CouchbaseTemplate.java
index 61804711..0441cd5f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/couchbase/core/CouchbaseTemplate.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/couchbase/core/CouchbaseTemplate.java
@@ -304,9 +304,12 @@ public class CouchbaseTemplate implements CouchbaseOperations, ApplicationEventP
   public <T> List<T> findByView(ViewQuery query, final Class<T> entityClass) {
     //we'll always need to get documents, as a RawJsonDocument, so we should force that target class
     //so that the caller doesn't set a bad target class unintentionally, pre-loading with a bad type.
-    //TODO DATACOUCH-227 reproduce retainOrder parameter
     if (!query.isIncludeDocs() || !query.includeDocsTarget().equals(RawJsonDocument.class)) {
-      query.includeDocs(RawJsonDocument.class);
+      if (query.isOrderRetained()) {
+        query.includeDocsOrdered(RawJsonDocument.class);
+      } else {
+        query.includeDocs(RawJsonDocument.class);
+      }
     }
     //we'll always map the document to the entity, hence reduce never makes sense.
     query.reduce(false);