diff --git a/build/cmake/DefineOptions.cmake b/build/cmake/DefineOptions.cmake
index f1ea7bb..f419229 100644
--- a/build/cmake/DefineOptions.cmake
+++ b/build/cmake/DefineOptions.cmake
@@ -127,10 +127,10 @@
     CMAKE_DEPENDENT_OPTION(BUILD_JAVA "Build Java library" ON
                            "BUILD_LIBRARIES;WITH_JAVA;GRADLE_FOUND" OFF)
 else()
+    find_package(Gradlew QUIET)
     find_package(Java QUIET)
-    find_package(Ant QUIET)
     CMAKE_DEPENDENT_OPTION(BUILD_JAVA "Build Java library" ON
-                           "BUILD_LIBRARIES;WITH_JAVA;JAVA_FOUND;ANT_FOUND" OFF)
+                           "BUILD_LIBRARIES;WITH_JAVA;JAVA_FOUND;GRADLEW_FOUND" OFF)
 endif()
 
 # Python
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
     MESSAGE_DEP(GRADLE_FOUND "Gradle missing")
 else()
     MESSAGE_DEP(JAVA_FOUND "Java Runtime missing")
-    MESSAGE_DEP(ANT_FOUND "Ant missing")
+    MESSAGE_DEP(GRADLEW_FOUND "Gradle Wrapper missing")
 endif()
 message(STATUS "  Build Python library:                       ${BUILD_PYTHON}")
 MESSAGE_DEP(WITH_PYTHON "Disabled by WITH_PYTHON=OFF")
diff --git a/build/cmake/FindGradlew.cmake b/build/cmake/FindGradlew.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..17bb998
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/cmake/FindGradlew.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+
+#  GRADLEW_FOUND - system has Gradlew
+#  GRADLEW_EXECUTABLE - the Gradlew executable
+#
+# It will search the location CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR/lib/java
+
+include(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
+
+find_program(GRADLEW_EXECUTABLE gradlew PATHS ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/java NO_DEFAULT_PATH NO_CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH)
+find_package_handle_standard_args(Gradlew DEFAULT_MSG GRADLEW_EXECUTABLE)
+mark_as_advanced(GRADLEW_EXECUTABLE)
+
+# Buggy find_program cannot find gradlew.bat when gradlew is at the same path
+# and even buggier ctest will not execute gradlew.bat when gradlew is given.
+if(CMAKE_HOST_WIN32)
+    string(REGEX REPLACE "(.+gradlew)$" "\\1.bat" GRADLEW_EXECUTABLE ${GRADLEW_EXECUTABLE})
+endif(CMAKE_HOST_WIN32)
diff --git a/build/docker/ubuntu-trusty/Dockerfile b/build/docker/ubuntu-trusty/Dockerfile
index 0acd577..5d7cec2 100644
--- a/build/docker/ubuntu-trusty/Dockerfile
+++ b/build/docker/ubuntu-trusty/Dockerfile
@@ -216,6 +216,16 @@
       sloccount && \
     pip install flake8
 
+# Install BouncyCastle provider to fix Java builds issues with JDK 7
+# Builds accessing repote repositories fail as seen here: https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/8503
+RUN apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+`# BouncyCastle JCE Provider dependencies` \
+      libbcprov-java && \
+    ln -s /usr/share/java/bcprov.jar /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/bcprov.jar && \
+    awk -F . -v OFS=. 'BEGIN{n=2}/^security\.provider/ {split($3, posAndEquals, "=");$3=n++"="posAndEquals[2];print;next} 1' /etc/java-7-openjdk/security/java.security > /tmp/java.security && \
+  echo "security.provider.1=org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider" >> /tmp/java.security && \
+  mv /tmp/java.security /etc/java-7-openjdk/security/java.security
+
 # Clean up
 RUN rm -rf /var/cache/apt/* && \
     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \