Compiling and testing against different JVMs ============================================ By default tests are executed with the same Java Gradle is using internally. To run tests against a different Java version, define a property called "runtime.java.home" or define an environment variable "RUNTIME_JAVA_HOME" pointing at the JDK installation folder. If property is being used, it can be a system property (-D...) or a project property (-P...). Example: gradlew test -p lucene/test-framework --tests TestJvmInfo -Dtests.verbose=true -Druntime.java.home=/jvms/jdk14 Note that an alternative JVM can also be made the "default" setting by adding it to (project-local) gradle.properties.