If you are using Java 9 then you will need to add these lines to your build.gradle for the Eureka project so that you do not get any errors compile 'javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api:2.3.0' compile 'com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-impl:2.3.0' compile 'com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-core:2.3.0' compile 'com.sun.activation:javax.activation:1.2.0'