[LUCENE-9382] Lucene's gradle version can't cope with Java 14

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Dawid Weiss
• Reporter: Alan Woodward
• Created: 26/May/20 10:14
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 16:03
• Resolved: 02/Jun/20 11:51

Description

If you have JDK 14 installed as your default java, then attempting to use gradle within the lucene-solr project can result in errors, particularly if you have other projects that use more recent gradle versions on the same machine.

```
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v7.Java7
at org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.VMPluginFactory.<clinit>(VMPluginFactory.java:43)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.GroovyClassValueFactory.<clinit>(GroovyClassValueFactory.java:35)
```

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1549