Using different jdk for junit testing

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I’m trying to use a different JDK to run my tests because gradle is running with java 7 and I want to run my tests with jdk 8. I am running gradle 2.3.

I set this option:

test {
   executable = "/path/to/jdk/bin/javac"
}

But I get the error

:testjavac: invalid flag: -Djava.security.manager=jarjar.org.gradle.process.internal.child.BootstrapSecurityManager
Usage: javac <options> <source files>

I have also set my options for compiling the source and test code using a different JDK, but that works fine. It’s just the running of the tests.

What am I doing incorrectly here?

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Answered my own question here. I was passing the path to javac, not java.