Android Gradle - Sonarqube fails with JAXBException on JDK 11

Today my Sonar Scanner started to fail on Android Project and later found that Sonar Stopped supporting JDK 8. So i upgraded the JDK version to 11 and soon after that Sonarqube again started to fail with following error.

Version: SonarCloud

Gradle Configuration (Configured at root of the project):

plugins {
  id "org.sonarqube" version "3.1.1"
}

sonarqube {
    //androidVariant 'devDebug'
  properties {
    property "sonar.projectKey", "xxx"
    property "sonar.projectName", "Android"
    property "sonar.organization", "xxxx"
    property "sonar.host.url", "https://sonarcloud.io"
    property "sonar.login", xxx
  }
}

Error:

> Task :app:javaPreCompileQaDebug
> Task :voicecall:mergeDebugAndroidTestResources
> Task :app:processQaDebugAnnotationsWithJavac FAILED
> Task :voicecall:processDebugAndroidTestResources
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processQaDebugAnnotationsWithJavac'.
> javax/xml/bind/JAXBException
* Try:
Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
* Exception is:
org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':app:processQaDebugAnnotationsWithJavac'.
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter$3.accept(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:166)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter$3.accept(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:163)
	at org.gradle.internal.Try$Failure.ifSuccessfulOrElse(Try.java:191)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:156)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ValidatingTaskExecuter.execute(ValidatingTaskExecuter.java:62)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.execute(SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.java:108)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ResolveBeforeExecutionOutputsTaskExecuter.execute(ResolveBeforeExecutionOutputsTaskExecuter.java:67)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ResolveAfterPreviousExecutionStateTaskExecuter.execute(ResolveAfterPreviousExecutionStateTaskExecuter.java:46)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.CleanupStaleOutputsExecuter.execute(CleanupStaleOutputsExecuter.java:94)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.FinalizePropertiesTaskExecuter.execute(FinalizePropertiesTaskExecuter.java:46)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ResolveTaskExecutionModeExecuter.execute(ResolveTaskExecutionModeExecuter.java:95)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.execute(SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.java:57)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.execute(SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.java:56)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.CatchExceptionTaskExecuter.execute(CatchExceptionTaskExecuter.java:36)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.EventFiringTaskExecuter$1.executeTask(EventFiringTaskExecuter.java:77)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.EventFiringTaskExecuter$1.call(EventFiringTaskExecuter.java:55)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.EventFiringTaskExecuter$1.call(EventFiringTaskExecuter.java:52)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$CallableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:416)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$CallableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:406)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$1.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:165)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:250)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:158)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.call(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:102)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DelegatingBuildOperationExecutor.call(DelegatingBuildOperationExecutor.java:36)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.EventFiringTaskExecuter.execute(EventFiringTaskExecuter.java:52)
	at org.gradle.execution.plan.LocalTaskNodeExecutor.execute(LocalTaskNodeExecutor.java:43)
	at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskExecutionGraph$InvokeNodeExecutorsAction.execute(DefaultTaskExecutionGraph.java:355)
	at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskExecutionGraph$InvokeNodeExecutorsAction.execute(DefaultTaskExecutionGraph.java:343)
	at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskExecutionGraph$BuildOperationAwareExecutionAction.execute(DefaultTaskExecutionGraph.java:336)
	at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskExecutionGraph$BuildOperationAwareExecutionAction.execute(DefaultTaskExecutionGraph.java:322)
	at org.gradle.execution.plan.DefaultPlanExecutor$ExecutorWorker$1.execute(DefaultPlanExecutor.java:134)
	at org.gradle.execution.plan.DefaultPlanExecutor$ExecutorWorker$1.execute(DefaultPlanExecutor.java:129)
	at org.gradle.execution.plan.DefaultPlanExecutor$ExecutorWorker.execute(DefaultPlanExecutor.java:202)
	at org.gradle.execution.plan.DefaultPlanExecutor$ExecutorWorker.executeNextNode(DefaultPlanExecutor.java:193)
	at org.gradle.execution.plan.DefaultPlanExecutor$ExecutorWorker.run(DefaultPlanExecutor.java:129)
	at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ExecutorPolicy$CatchAndRecordFailures.onExecute(ExecutorPolicy.java:64)
	at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ManagedExecutorImpl$1.run(ManagedExecutorImpl.java:48)
	at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ThreadFactoryImpl$ManagedThreadRunnable.run(ThreadFactoryImpl.java:56)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/JAXBException
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.AnnotationProcessingCompileTask.instantiateProcessor(AnnotationProcessingCompileTask.java:137)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.AnnotationProcessingCompileTask.setupProcessors(AnnotationProcessingCompileTask.java:109)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.AnnotationProcessingCompileTask.call(AnnotationProcessingCompileTask.java:92)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.ResourceCleaningCompilationTask.call(ResourceCleaningCompilationTask.java:57)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.JdkJavaCompiler.execute(JdkJavaCompiler.java:54)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.JdkJavaCompiler.execute(JdkJavaCompiler.java:39)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.NormalizingJavaCompiler.delegateAndHandleErrors(NormalizingJavaCompiler.java:100)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.NormalizingJavaCompiler.execute(NormalizingJavaCompiler.java:52)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.NormalizingJavaCompiler.execute(NormalizingJavaCompiler.java:38)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.AnnotationProcessorDiscoveringCompiler.execute(AnnotationProcessorDiscoveringCompiler.java:51)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.AnnotationProcessorDiscoveringCompiler.execute(AnnotationProcessorDiscoveringCompiler.java:37)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.CleaningJavaCompilerSupport.execute(CleaningJavaCompilerSupport.java:39)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.CleaningJavaCompilerSupport.execute(CleaningJavaCompilerSupport.java:27)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.CompileJavaBuildOperationReportingCompiler$2.call(CompileJavaBuildOperationReportingCompiler.java:59)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.CompileJavaBuildOperationReportingCompiler$2.call(CompileJavaBuildOperationReportingCompiler.java:51)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$CallableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:416)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$CallableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:406)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$1.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:165)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:250)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:158)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.call(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:102)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DelegatingBuildOperationExecutor.call(DelegatingBuildOperationExecutor.java:36)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.CompileJavaBuildOperationReportingCompiler.execute(CompileJavaBuildOperationReportingCompiler.java:51)
	at org.gradle.api.tasks.compile.JavaCompile.performCompilation(JavaCompile.java:158)
	at org.gradle.api.tasks.compile.JavaCompile.compile(JavaCompile.java:143)
	at org.gradle.api.tasks.compile.JavaCompile.compile(JavaCompile.java:115)
	at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor263.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod.invoke(JavaMethod.java:103)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.IncrementalTaskInputsTaskAction.doExecute(IncrementalTaskInputsTaskAction.java:47)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.StandardTaskAction.execute(StandardTaskAction.java:42)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AbstractIncrementalTaskAction.execute(AbstractIncrementalTaskAction.java:25)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.StandardTaskAction.execute(StandardTaskAction.java:28)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter$5.run(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:476)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$RunnableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:402)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$RunnableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:394)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$1.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:165)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:250)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:158)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:92)
	at org.gradle.internal.operations.DelegatingBuildOperationExecutor.run(DelegatingBuildOperationExecutor.java:31)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeAction(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:461)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeActions(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:444)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.access$200(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:93)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter$TaskExecution.execute(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:237)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.ExecuteStep.lambda$execute$0(ExecuteStep.java:32)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.ExecuteStep.execute(ExecuteStep.java:32)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.ExecuteStep.execute(ExecuteStep.java:26)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.CleanupOutputsStep.execute(CleanupOutputsStep.java:58)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.CleanupOutputsStep.execute(CleanupOutputsStep.java:35)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.ResolveInputChangesStep.execute(ResolveInputChangesStep.java:48)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.ResolveInputChangesStep.execute(ResolveInputChangesStep.java:33)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.CancelExecutionStep.execute(CancelExecutionStep.java:39)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.TimeoutStep.executeWithoutTimeout(TimeoutStep.java:73)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.TimeoutStep.execute(TimeoutStep.java:54)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.CatchExceptionStep.execute(CatchExceptionStep.java:35)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.CreateOutputsStep.execute(CreateOutputsStep.java:51)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.SnapshotOutputsStep.execute(SnapshotOutputsStep.java:45)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.SnapshotOutputsStep.execute(SnapshotOutputsStep.java:31)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.CacheStep.executeWithoutCache(CacheStep.java:208)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.CacheStep.execute(CacheStep.java:70)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.CacheStep.execute(CacheStep.java:45)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.BroadcastChangingOutputsStep.execute(BroadcastChangingOutputsStep.java:49)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.StoreSnapshotsStep.execute(StoreSnapshotsStep.java:43)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.StoreSnapshotsStep.execute(StoreSnapshotsStep.java:32)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.RecordOutputsStep.execute(RecordOutputsStep.java:38)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.RecordOutputsStep.execute(RecordOutputsStep.java:24)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.SkipUpToDateStep.executeBecause(SkipUpToDateStep.java:96)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.SkipUpToDateStep.lambda$execute$0(SkipUpToDateStep.java:89)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.SkipUpToDateStep.execute(SkipUpToDateStep.java:54)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.SkipUpToDateStep.execute(SkipUpToDateStep.java:38)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.ResolveChangesStep.execute(ResolveChangesStep.java:76)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.ResolveChangesStep.execute(ResolveChangesStep.java:37)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.legacy.MarkSnapshottingInputsFinishedStep.execute(MarkSnapshottingInputsFinishedStep.java:36)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.legacy.MarkSnapshottingInputsFinishedStep.execute(MarkSnapshottingInputsFinishedStep.java:26)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.ResolveCachingStateStep.execute(ResolveCachingStateStep.java:90)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.ResolveCachingStateStep.execute(ResolveCachingStateStep.java:48)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.CaptureStateBeforeExecutionStep.execute(CaptureStateBeforeExecutionStep.java:69)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.steps.CaptureStateBeforeExecutionStep.execute(CaptureStateBeforeExecutionStep.java:47)
	at org.gradle.internal.execution.impl.DefaultWorkExecutor.execute(DefaultWorkExecutor.java:33)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:140)
	... 34 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.JAXBException
	... 115 more

Hi @satheeshpayoda and welcome to the community!

It looks like your problem appeared after migrating to Java 11. As you may know starting from Java 9 jdk has modules inside. Sometimes during migration it happens that you’re missing some apis, which where available in Java8. So you need to do a proper migration to make your code run on Java 11. (Probably upgrading other dependencies)

As you might probably noticed there is no “sonar” or “sonarsource” in logs, so your problem isn’t really related to sonarqube.

If you don’t want to migrate your project to Java 11, it’s still possible to have Java 8 project while scanners are using Java 11. Here is a detailed guide.

Regards,
Margarita

Thanks for your reply.

You may correct, some libs are not compatible with JDK 11. But the things is Android officially support JDK 8 only. So we can’t upgrade our Android Gradle project(including our libs) to support for JDK 11.

Is that possible to bypass this on Sonar Scanner side?

Yes, you can build your project with Java 8 and run analysis on Java 11.
To do so you just need to set JAVA_HOME to Java 11 after build but before the analysis.

gradle build ...
export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/java11
gradle sonarqube ...

All details you can find here

Yes, i’m following the same steps:

  1. By Default JAVA_HOME points to JDK 8
  2. Runing the gradlew with assembleDevDebug
  3. Once build is successful, pointing the JAVA_HOME to JDK 11.
  4. And then running the gradlew with sonarqube -Dsonar.qualitygate.wait=true

Its failing only at step 4. I think while running sonarqube task, its trying to build few things and then its fails with above issues.

Note: This issue only happens after upgrading to JDK 11.

It will be very helpful if you can provide a minimum reproducer, so I can try it on my own.
Also, could you please check which version of gradle you are using.

We are using Gradle Version: 5.6.4. I’m not sure how can i help you to reproduce the issue without exposing the project source.

On the high level:

  1. We are running the gradlew with assembleDevDebug (It can be assembleDebug too)
  2. Once the build is successful, I’m updating the JAVA_HOME environment variable to JDK 11.
  3. And then running the gradlew with sonarqube -Dsonar.qualitygate.wait=true

I’m able to fix this issue by adding following dependencies to gradle file. But thing is we can not force the developer to use JDK 11 and add these dependencies without knowing the full consequences.

    implementation 'jakarta.xml.bind:jakarta.xml.bind-api:2.3.3'
    implementation 'org.glassfish.jaxb:jaxb-runtime:2.3.3'

    annotationProcessor 'jakarta.xml.bind:jakarta.xml.bind-api:2.3.3'
    annotationProcessor 'org.glassfish.jaxb:jaxb-runtime:2.3.3'
    annotationProcessor 'javax.annotation:javax.annotation-api:1.3.2'

I found this solution from here:
java - javax/xml/bind/JAXBException building with gradle - Stack Overflow (2nd Answer)

I found another solution. I have upgraded the both Gradle Version and Android Gradle Plugin version to 6.5.1 & 4.1.0 receptively. Now its working fine. Might be some issue with build tools.

Thanks.

Refs:
https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/gradle-plugin

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