Update the build to use Gradle 7.4

Hello, Up-front disclaimer: I'm not a Gradle expert - but I spent a little time poking around at what it would take to upgrade the build to go from Gradle 6.8 -> Gradle 7.4 Previous efforts to clean up Gradle 7 deprecation warnings made it fairly straightforward - in the end it seems there were o

Re: Update the build to use Gradle 7.4

Hi Ryan, Welcome to Geode and thanks for the contribution! Anthony > On Feb 9, 2022, at 7:32 AM, Ryan Gardner wrote: > > Hello, > > Up-front disclaimer: I'm not a Gradle expert - but I spent a little time > poking around at what it would take to upgrade the build to go from Gradle > 6.8 -> G

Re: Update the build to use Gradle 7.4

Hi Ryan- Nice work on the Gradle 7.4 upgrade! I know first-hand how challenging this effort is since I am (currently) going through the same exercise with all the Spring for Apache Geode projects. In fact, minimally, Gradle 7.3 is required to build with Java 17 [1]. Be careful when switching p