"Java Wordcount Direct Runner (windows-latest)" failing on master

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Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 7.0.

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Build file 'D:\a\beam\beam\examples\java\build.gradle' line: 28

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':examples:java'.
> unexpected character r

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BUILD FAILED in 3m 0s
##[error]Process completed with exit code 1.