The suspicion is that the combination of the latest Java 7 patch does…

…n’t play along with the old gradle-cobertura plugin (it works fine with Java 6). Updating cobertura to a newer version fixes the build issues.

gradle/buildscript.gradle

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ repositories {
 }
 dependencies {
     classpath 'nl.javadude.gradle.plugins:license-gradle-plugin:0.6.1'
-    classpath 'com.mapvine:gradle-cobertura-plugin:0.1'
+    classpath 'net.saliman:gradle-cobertura-plugin:2.2.4'
     classpath 'gradle-release:gradle-release:1.1.5'
     classpath 'org.ajoberstar:gradle-git:0.5.0'
 }