What happened?

Due to that Hive 3.1.3 only supports Java8. Specifically, running on Java11 give the following error

java.lang.ClassCastException: class jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader cannot be cast to class java.net.URLClassLoader (jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader and java.net.URLClassLoader are in module java.base of loader 'bootstrap')
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.<init>(SessionState.java:413)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.<init>(SessionState.java:389)
	at org.apache.beam.sdk.io.hcatalog.test.EmbeddedMetastoreService.<init>(EmbeddedMetastoreService.java:73)

Issue Failure

Failure: Test is continually failing

Issue Priority

Priority: 2 (backlog / disabled test but we think the product is healthy)

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