Java demand in Run Code Analysis job in Azure DevOps

[Colin]

Greetings,

This thread should help you understand why this is going on:

Azure DevOps hosted build “java” demanded capability not present

Hi @ajwgregg. Welcome to the community. To answer your first question, Java is required on the build agent because the Sonar scanner and language plugins are written in Java and they run on the build agent. The reason installing the OpenJDK didn’t fix your build is because of this bug in the Azure DevOps Windows build agent, which we can’t fix or work round in our extensions. I’ve just pinged Microsoft to ask about the status of the bug. The discussions about the bug and possible fixes in the…

Colin