SonarQube Scanners and Java 11

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Hello All, we are currently running SonarQube 8.9 under Java 11 on the SonarQube server, but our build server where the sonarscanner is at is under Java 8 (note: we have some apps that can only run under Java 8). We are using an Azure DevOps sonarscanner with self hosted agents. In order to use SonarQube 9.0+, do we just need to install Java 11 (and keep Java 8 present) on the sonarscanner server and then change our build pipeline to run Java 11 by default (or override the JAVA_HOME variable just before running)? Is there anything else that needs to be done?
Summary:

  1. install Java 11 (and keep Java 8 present)
  2. change Java 11 to default (or override JAVA_Home variable right before scanner call)

Please advise and thanks…

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Hi @bufbooth ,

You are correct.: overriding JAVA_HOME just before the Sonar scanner analysis is all you need to do, so you will need both Java 8 and Java 11. That’s all that is needed.

Please review Moving Analysis to Java 11 | SonarQube Docs for more information.