[Bug]: ./gradlew checkSetup fails with Java 8 on Docker dev image

[charlespnh]

What happened?

I was setting up the dev environment using Docker and came across the NullPointerException error when running task :sdks:java:core:compileJava. From the Docker image I was using Java 8 and got this error. It is fine if I use Java 11 instead.

I setup a GitHub Action workflow to reproduce the error here: https://github.com/charlespnh/beam/actions/runs/13744591726?pr=1

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Priority: 2 (default / most bugs should be filed as P2)

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