'gradle bootRun' command fails

[anand-xoriant]

I am having gradle 3.4.1 & Java 1.8 on windows 10 OS. When I run 'gradle bootRun' command on console, I get the following error:
C:\Users\kulkarni_an\Downloads\spring-boot-websocket-stomp-server-send-example-master>gradle bootRun -stacktrace
:compileJava FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException (no error message)

• Try:
  Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

• Exception is:
  java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
  at org.springframework.boot.gradle.exclude.ApplyExcludeRules.addImplicitExcludeRules(ApplyExcludeRules.java:102)

[sci-burns]

I had the same issue on another project - was using gradle wrapper 3.3, switched to 2.14 and it cleared the issue.