Chapter 31. The JDepend Plugin

The JDepend plugin performs quality checks on your project's source files using JDepend and generates reports from these checks.

31.1. Usage

To use the JDepend plugin, include in your build script:

Example 31.1. Using the JDepend plugin

build.gradle

apply plugin: 'jdepend'

The plugin adds a number of tasks to the project that perform the quality checks. You can execute the checks by running gradle check.

The JDepend plugin adds the following tasks to the project:

Table 31.1. JDepend plugin - tasks

Task name	Depends on	Type	Description
`jdependMain`	`classes`	`JDepend`	Runs JDepend against the production Java source files.
`jdependTest`	`testClasses`	`JDepend`	Runs JDepend against the test Java source files.
`jdependSourceSet`	`sourceSetClasses`	`JDepend`	Runs JDepend against the given source set's Java source files.

The JDepend plugin adds the following dependencies to tasks defined by the Java plugin.

Table 31.2. JDepend plugin - additional task dependencies

Task name	Depends on
`check`	All JDepend tasks, including `jdependMain` and `jdependTest`.

The JDepend plugin adds the following dependency configurations:

Table 31.3. JDepend plugin - dependency configurations

Name	Meaning
`jdepend`	The JDepend libraries to use