Source: gradle Severity: wishlist This bug is for coordination/tracking... Sudip Mukherjee has been kind enough to update simple-http to modern version that has been uploaded to experimental. Now we need to update gradle-javascript to be able to find simple.jar.
The full stack trace is: * Exception is: org.gradle.internal.service.ServiceCreationException: Could not create service of type ClassLoaderRegistry using GlobalScopeServices.createClassLoaderRegistry(). at org.gradle.internal.service.DefaultServiceRegistry$FactoryMethodService.invokeMethod(DefaultServiceRegistry.java:797) at org.gradle.internal.service.DefaultServiceRegistry$FactoryService.create(DefaultServiceRegistry.java:748) at org.gradle.internal.service.DefaultServiceRegistry$ManagedObjectProvider.getInstance(DefaultServiceRegistry.java:574) at org.gradle.internal.service.DefaultServiceRegistry$SingletonService.get(DefaultServiceRegistry.java:623) at org.gradle.internal.service.DefaultServiceRegistry.applyConfigureMethod(DefaultServiceRegistry.java:199) at org.gradle.internal.service.DefaultServiceRegistry.findProviderMethods(DefaultServiceRegistry.java:180) at org.gradle.internal.service.DefaultServiceRegistry.addProvider(DefaultServiceRegistry.java:255) at org.gradle.internal.service.ServiceRegistryBuilder.build(ServiceRegistryBuilder.java:52) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.BuildActionsFactory.runBuildInProcess(BuildActionsFactory.java:129) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.BuildActionsFactory.createAction(BuildActionsFactory.java:90) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.createAction(CommandLineActionFactory.java:296) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:286) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:264) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.JavaRuntimeValidationAction.execute(JavaRuntimeValidationAction.java:33) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.JavaRuntimeValidationAction.execute(JavaRuntimeValidationAction.java:24) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:33) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:22) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:257) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:191) at org.gradle.launcher.Main.doAction(Main.java:33) at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.EntryPoint.run(EntryPoint.java:45) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566) at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.runNoExit(ProcessBootstrap.java:60) at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.run(ProcessBootstrap.java:37) at org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain.main(GradleMain.java:23) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot find JAR 'simple.jar' required by module 'gradle-javascript' using classpath or distribution directory '/usr/share/gradle' at org.gradle.api.internal.classpath.DefaultModuleRegistry.findDependencyJar(DefaultModuleRegistry.java:262) at org.gradle.api.internal.classpath.DefaultModuleRegistry.findDependencyJars(DefaultModuleRegistry.java:152) at org.gradle.api.internal.classpath.DefaultModuleRegistry.module(DefaultModuleRegistry.java:142) at org.gradle.api.internal.classpath.DefaultModuleRegistry.loadOptionalModule(DefaultModuleRegistry.java:122) at org.gradle.api.internal.classpath.DefaultModuleRegistry.loadModule(DefaultModuleRegistry.java:106) at org.gradle.api.internal.classpath.DefaultModuleRegistry.getModule(DefaultModuleRegistry.java:86) at org.gradle.api.internal.classpath.DefaultPluginModuleRegistry.loadModules(DefaultPluginModuleRegistry.java:50) at org.gradle.api.internal.classpath.DefaultPluginModuleRegistry.getApiModules(DefaultPluginModuleRegistry.java:37) at org.gradle.api.internal.DynamicModulesClassPathProvider.findClassPath(DynamicModulesClassPathProvider.java:48) at org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultClassPathRegistry.getClassPath(DefaultClassPathRegistry.java:34) at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultClassLoaderRegistry.<init>(DefaultClassLoaderRegistry.java:31) at org.gradle.internal.service.scopes.GlobalScopeServices.createClassLoaderRegistry(GlobalScopeServices.java:207) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566) at org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod.invoke(JavaMethod.java:73) at org.gradle.internal.service.ReflectionBasedServiceMethod.invoke(ReflectionBasedServiceMethod.java:35) at org.gradle.internal.service.DefaultServiceRegistry$FactoryMethodService.invokeMethod(DefaultServiceRegistry.java:795) ... 27 more Cheers, tony