# Gradle application plugin broke for jdk9?

**URL:** <https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-application-plugin-broke-for-jdk9/27616>\
**Category:** Help/Discuss\
**Created:** [July 4, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-application-plugin-broke-for-jdk9/27616 "2018-07-04T15:11:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![deanhiller](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/deanhiller/32/5516_2.png) [@deanhiller](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/deanhiller)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-application-plugin-broke-for-jdk9/27616/1 "2018-07-04T15:11:18Z")

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Has anyone else seen the issue of the application plugin breaking for gradle 4.8 and jdk9 where it says this

about to build assembleDist

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

- What went wrong:  
Could not determine java version from ‘9.0.4’.

thanks,  
Dean

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**Author:** ![deanhiller](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/deanhiller/32/5516_2.png) [@deanhiller](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/deanhiller)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-application-plugin-broke-for-jdk9/27616/2 "2018-07-04T15:12:36Z")

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oh, with stack trace is better. Is this a core gradle api issue?

- Exception is:  
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not determine java version from ‘9.0.4’.  
at org.gradle.api.JavaVersion.toVersion(JavaVersion.java:68)  
at org.gradle.internal.jvm.inspection.JvmVersionDetector.parseJavaVersionCommandOutput(JvmVersionDetector.java:96)  
at org.gradle.internal.jvm.inspection.JvmVersionDetector.getJavaVersion(JvmVersionDetector.java:85)  
at org.gradle.internal.jvm.inspection.JvmVersionDetector.getJavaVersion(JvmVersionDetector.java:61)  
at org.gradle.launcher.cli.BuildActionsFactory.createAction(BuildActionsFactory.java:61)

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**Author:** ![deanhiller](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/deanhiller/32/5516_2.png) [@deanhiller](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/deanhiller)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-application-plugin-broke-for-jdk9/27616/3 "2018-07-13T15:07:38Z")

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fixed, have to upgrade gradle wrapper twice with the gradle command and update gradle.properties with new gradle version before doing that too.