diff --git a/headless-services/jdt-ls-extension/pom.xml b/headless-services/jdt-ls-extension/pom.xml
index a2112a567..eb45be12f 100644
--- a/headless-services/jdt-ls-extension/pom.xml
+++ b/headless-services/jdt-ls-extension/pom.xml
@@ -75,7 +75,10 @@
 			<id>JDT.LS</id>
 			<layout>p2</layout>
 			<!-- <url>${jdt.ls.updatesite}</url> -->
-			<url>https://download.eclipse.org/jdtls/snapshots/repository/latest/</url>
+			<url>https://download.eclipse.org/jdtls/milestones/1.12.0/repository/</url>
+<!--			<url>https://download.eclipse.org/jdtls/snapshots/repository/latest/</url> -->
+<!-- The latest JDT LS requires a JDK 17, so we need to run builds on a JDK 17 and raise the minimum level to JDK 17 -->
+<!-- In order to avoid this for the 2022-06-based release, I set the JDK LS version here to the latest milestone that does NOT require JDK 17 yet -->
 		</repository>
 		<repository>
 			<id>specific orbit</id>