I have seen this one... though the details elude me
I switch between Java 8 and 11, having some clojure projects on each... and I can tell you that some dependencies are incompatible with one or the other, and this javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter
is one that I had seen when I tried to use some dependency that only liked Java 8, with Java 11 (IIRC)
I was forced to upgrade or downgrade certain dependencies to get around these kind of issues, and to have cider work properly (with a single emacs config) with both java versions
you might try updating some older dependencies and see if you can get Java 11 to work