How do I tell Gradle to use specific JDK version?

Question

I can\'t figure out to get this working.

Scenario:

• I have an application built with gradle
• The application uses JavaFX

What I w

Answer 1

To people ending up here when searching for the Gradle equivalent of the Maven property maven.compiler.source (or 1.8):

In build.gradle you can achieve this with

apply plugin: 'java'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
targetCompatibility = 1.8

See the Gradle documentation on this.