Trying to import "serenity-bdd / serenity-cucumber-starter" as a Gradle project in to Eclipse

[Prasad Nutalapati]

I am trying to import

serenity-bdd/serenity-cucumber-starter

as a Gradle project in to latest Eclipse(Version: 2021-09 (4.21.0)Build id: 20210910-1417)

having JDK 12.0.2 being installed, but set to compile for version 11.0.

I am getting this issue...

Could not create an instance of Tooling API implementation using the specified Gradle distribution 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.9-bin.zip'.

Unable to make protected java.lang.Package[] java.lang.ClassLoader.getPackages() accessible: module java.base does not "opens java.lang" to unnamed module @5c2c9d50

Is this issue because of Gradle and JDK compatibility ? How to resolve it ?

I changed the  gradle distribution to 5.0, like in gradle-wrapper.properties

the value 

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.9-bin.zip (TO)

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.0-bin.zip

thinking that the JDK 11.0(mine is compiling to 11 by the installed JDK 12.0.2) is first supported by gradle 5.0

Now I am getting a different issue like...

Could not run build action using connection to Gradle distribution 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.0-bin.zip'.

Could not open cp_init remapped class cache for 7r33aetq5p4qanun20juj8a6u (/Users/venkatanutalapati/.gradle/caches/5.0/scripts-remapped/eclipsePlugin_75va68wrol9fesgjolet4ggtx/7r33aetq5p4qanun20juj8a6u/cp_inita9190c3ddc71e1450eb3f3e7bc6a334f).

Could not open cp_init generic class cache for initialization script '/Users/venkatanutalapati/dev/eclipse-workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.buildship.core/init.d/eclipsePlugin.gradle' (/Users/venkatanutalapati/.gradle/caches/5.0/scripts/7r33aetq5p4qanun20juj8a6u/cp_init/cp_inita9190c3ddc71e1450eb3f3e7bc6a334f).

Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v7.Java7

Thanks for your help,

--Prasad Nutalapati