Gradle

Project to learn and explore the gradle build automation tool.

Each subdirectory contains an example

Dramatically speeds up tasks. See Gradle Daemon docs.

TL;DR

Can enable view the following

touch ~/.gradle/gradle.properties && echo "org.gradle.daemon=true" >> ~/.gradle/gradle.properties

Show Tasks

gradle tasks

This is a simple example showing how to run a task and print to stdout.

To Run

$ gradle helloworld

Init gradle

$ mkdir command-line-app
$ cd command-line-app
$ gradle init --type java-library

This creates the gradle files and default directory structure for a java-library

Create a jar

$ gradle uploadArchives

outputs jar to repos/

Run via

$ java -cp repos/command-line-app-1.0.jar Main

or

$ java -jar repos/command-line-app-1.0.jar

The application plugin enables you to run the app via gradle run. You need to add the following to build.gradle.

apply plugin: 'application'
mainClassName = 'Main'