Problem with running wsimport Ant task w/Java 11

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Hi all

I have a following snippet in my build.gradle that works fine under Java 8, but fails under Java 11:

configurations {
    jaxws
}

dependencies {
    jaxws group: 'javax.jws', name: 'javax.jws-api', version: '1.1'
    jaxws 'com.sun.xml.ws:jaxws-tools:2.3.0'
}

task wsimportInput {

    inputs.dir('src/main/resources/wsdl/input')
    outputs.dir('build/generated/wsdl/my/package/wsdl/input')

    doFirst {
        mkdir 'build/generated/wsdl'
    }

    doLast {
        ant.taskdef(name: 'wsimport',
                classname: 'com.sun.tools.ws.ant.WsImport',
                classpath: configurations.jaxws.asPath)
        ant.wsimport(
                wsdl: 'src/main/resources/wsdl/input/myservice.wsdl',
                package: 'my.package.wsdl.input',
                sourcedestdir: 'build/generated/wsdl',
                xnocompile: 'true',
                disableAuthenticator: 'true',
                xdebug: 'true'
        ) {
        }
    }
}


task wsimport() {
    dependsOn(wsimportInput)
}

compileJava.dependsOn(wsimport)

So, under Java 8 this works fine and generates necessary classes. However, under Java 11, this is error I am getting:

[ant:wsimport] Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Users\myname.gradle\daemon\6.4.1\src\main\resources\wsdl\input\myservice.wsdl (The system cannot find th
e path specified)

So, apparently, relative path, specified in Ant task definition, is being turned into wrong absolute path, when run under Java 11. How can I debug/troubleshoot this issue? Which Gradle component is responsible for “absolutizing” relative paths in this case?

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Ehm, actually this is a known problem in Gradle with Java 9+: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/6139/files

So I’ve just replaced my definition with

...
 wsdl: project.file('src/main/resources/wsdl/input/myservice.wsdl'),
...

and now it works!