adoptopenjdk 8 does not support AArch64 for new Mx Macs

[soft4rchitecture]

Describe the bug
when running ./gradlew clean build, an error occurs saying "JDK is not available, Could not read 'https://api.adoptopenjdk.net/v3/binary/latest/8/ga/mac/aarch64/jdk/hotspot/normal/adoptopenjdk' as it does not exist."

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to the root directory of git repository
2. run ./gradlew clean build
3. See error

Expected behavior
the jdk is found, and installed

Screenshots

Configuration:

• OS: OSX Monterey 12.5
• cpu architecture: AArch64

Additional context
when running "curl https://api.adoptopenjdk.net/v3/binary/latest/8/ga/mac/aarch64/jdk/hotspot/normal/adoptopenjdk" the following message is returned: {"errorMessage":"No releases match the request"}.
It looks like adoptopenjdk doesn't support AArch64 CPU architecture.

[fhoeben]

As a workaround I believe you can install the Java 8 from Zulu which does support Mac m1: https://www.azul.com/downloads/?version=java-8-lts&os=macos&package=jdk

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I believe this is the same problem as gradle/gradle#19874

They point to gradle/gradle#19140 (comment) as a way to get around this, but I don't immediately see how this can be used to fix the issue for FitNesse

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Maybe we can look at https://github.com/palantir/gradle-jdks...

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It turns out that plugin only works when building with Java 11. Since we are building for Java 8 I would prefer to stick to that for the build process also. I created an issue to see whether they can add Java 8 support

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Closing this issue given we upgraded to Java 11