SSLPing, Received fatal alert: protocol_version

[mcruiseon]

JAVA Version
/usr/libexec/java_home/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-12.0.1.jdk/Contents/Home

When I run
$ ./gradlew clean build

I get the following error
Exception in thread "main" javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: protocol_version
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:208)
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:154)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.recvAlert(SSLSocketImpl.java:1979)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1086)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1332)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1359)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1343)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:559)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:185)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1301)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:254)
at org.gradle.wrapper.Download.downloadInternal(Download.java:56)
at org.gradle.wrapper.Download.download(Download.java:42)
at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:57)
at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:44)
at org.gradle.wrapper.ExclusiveFileAccessManager.access(ExclusiveFileAccessManager.java:65)
at org.gradle.wrapper.Install.createDist(Install.java:44)
at org.gradle.wrapper.WrapperExecutor.execute(WrapperExecutor.java:126)
at org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain.main(GradleWrapperMain.java:56)

Does not work with JAVA 1.7, works with 1.8. How to get it working with 1.7?

[dimalinux]

I wrote that 5 years ago in Java 1.8. Are you still using Java 1.7 in 2020? The Java version in your text above says OpenJDK 12. Is that the actual version you want to work?