Hi *, I found out that current java-1.7.0 at ubuntu 14.04 and debian 8 has at least one serious bug: gradle on java 1.7 cannot download from https://plugins.gradle.org since it seems not to be able to validate the cert chain.
BIGTOP-2633 However using gradle with Java 1.8 seems to work flawlessly. Please stop me... I am testing right now a more rigorous patch removing jdk-1.7 altogether. Olaf
