Gradle User Guide

Version 1.5

Copyright © 2007-2012 Hans Dockter, Adam Murdoch

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. About this user guide

2. Overview

2.1. Features
2.2. Why Groovy?

3. Tutorials

3.1. Getting Started

4. Installing Gradle

4.1. Prerequisites
4.2. Download
4.3. Unpacking
4.4. Environment variables
4.5. Running and testing your installation
4.6. JVM options

5. Troubleshooting

5.1. Working through problems
5.2. Getting help

6. Build Script Basics

6.1. Projects and tasks
6.2. Hello world
6.3. A shortcut task definition
6.4. Build scripts are code
6.5. Task dependencies
6.6. Dynamic tasks
6.7. Manipulating existing tasks
6.8. Shortcut notations
6.9. Extra task properties
6.10. Using Ant Tasks
6.11. Using methods
6.12. Default tasks
6.13. Configure by DAG
6.14. Where to next?

7. Java Quickstart

7.1. The Java plugin
7.2. A basic Java project
7.3. Multi-project Java build
7.4. Where to next?

8. Dependency Management Basics

8.1. What is dependency management?
8.2. Declaring your dependencies
8.3. Dependency configurations
8.4. External dependencies
8.5. Repositories
8.6. Publishing artifacts
8.7. Where to next?

9. Groovy Quickstart

9.1. A basic Groovy project
9.2. Summary

10. Web Application Quickstart

10.1. Building a WAR file
10.2. Running your web application
10.3. Summary

11. Using the Gradle Command-Line

11.1. Executing multiple tasks
11.2. Excluding tasks
11.3. Continuing the build when a failure occurs
11.4. Task name abbreviation
11.5. Selecting which build to execute
11.6. Obtaining information about your build
11.7. Dry Run
11.8. Summary

12. Using the Gradle Graphical User Interface

12.1. Task Tree
12.2. Favorites
12.3. Command Line
12.4. Setup

13. Writing Build Scripts

13.1. The Gradle build language
13.2. The Project API
13.3. The Script API
13.4. Declaring variables
13.5. Some Groovy basics

14. Tutorial - 'This and That'

14.1. Directory creation
14.2. Gradle properties and system properties
14.3. Configuring the project using an external build script
14.4. Configuring arbitrary objects
14.5. Configuring arbitrary objects using an external script
14.6. Caching

15. More about Tasks

15.1. Defining tasks
15.2. Locating tasks
15.3. Configuring tasks
15.4. Adding dependencies to a task
15.5. Adding a description to a task
15.6. Replacing tasks
15.7. Skipping tasks
15.8. Skipping tasks that are up-to-date
15.9. Task rules
15.10. Summary

16. Working With Files

16.1. Locating files
16.2. File collections
16.3. File trees
16.4. Using the contents of an archive as a file tree
16.5. Specifying a set of input files
16.6. Copying files
16.7. Using the Sync task
16.8. Creating archives

17. Using Ant from Gradle

17.1. Using Ant tasks and types in your build
17.2. Importing an Ant build
17.3. Ant properties and references
17.4. API

18. Logging

18.1. Choosing a log level
18.2. Writing your own log messages
18.3. Logging from external tools and libraries
18.4. Changing what Gradle logs

19. The Gradle Daemon

19.1. Enter the daemon
19.2. Reusing and expiration of daemons
19.3. Usage and troubleshooting
19.4. Configuring the daemon

20. The Build Environment

20.1. Configuring the build environment via gradle.properties
20.2. Accessing the web via a proxy

21. Gradle Plugins

21.1. Applying plugins
21.2. What plugins do
21.3. Conventions
21.4. More on plugins

22. Standard Gradle plugins

22.1. Language plugins
22.2. Incubating language plugins
22.3. Integration plugins
22.4. Incubating integration plugins
22.5. Software development plugins
22.6. Incubating software development plugins
22.7. Base plugins
22.8. Third party plugins

23. The Java Plugin

23.1. Usage
23.2. Source sets
23.3. Tasks
23.4. Project layout
23.5. Dependency management
23.6. Convention properties
23.7. Working with source sets
23.8. Javadoc
23.9. Clean
23.10. Resources
23.11. CompileJava
23.12. Test
23.13. Jar
23.14. Uploading

24. The Groovy Plugin

24.1. Usage
24.2. Tasks
24.3. Project layout
24.4. Dependency management
24.5. Adding custom GroovyCompile and Groovydoc tasks
24.6. Convention properties
24.7. Source set properties
24.8. GroovyCompile

25. The Scala Plugin

25.1. Usage
25.2. Tasks
25.3. Project layout
25.4. Dependency management
25.5. Convention properties
25.6. Source set properties
25.7. Fast Scala Compiler
25.8. Compiling in external process
25.9. Incremental compilation
25.10. Eclipse Integration
25.11. IntelliJ IDEA Integration

26. The War Plugin

26.1. Usage
26.2. Tasks
26.3. Project layout
26.4. Dependency management
26.5. Convention properties
26.6. War
26.7. Customizing

27. The Ear Plugin

27.1. Usage
27.2. Tasks
27.3. Project layout
27.4. Dependency management
27.5. Convention properties
27.6. Ear
27.7. Customizing
27.8. Using custom descriptor file

28. The Jetty Plugin

28.1. Usage
28.2. Tasks
28.3. Project layout
28.4. Dependency management
28.5. Convention properties

29. The Checkstyle Plugin

29.1. Usage
29.2. Tasks
29.3. Project layout
29.4. Dependency management
29.5. Configuration

30. The CodeNarc Plugin

30.1. Usage
30.2. Tasks
30.3. Project layout
30.4. Dependency management
30.5. Configuration

31. The FindBugs Plugin

31.1. Usage
31.2. Tasks
31.3. Dependency management
31.4. Configuration

32. The JDepend Plugin

32.1. Usage
32.2. Tasks
32.3. Dependency management
32.4. Configuration

33. The PMD Plugin

33.1. Usage
33.2. Tasks
33.3. Dependency management
33.4. Configuration

34. The Sonar Plugin

34.1. Usage
34.2. Analyzing Multi-Project Builds
34.3. Analyzing Custom Source Sets
34.4. Analyzing languages other than Java
34.5. Setting Custom Sonar Properties
34.6. Configuring Sonar Settings from the Command Line
34.7. Tasks

35. The Sonar Runner Plugin

35.1. Plugin Status and Compatibility
35.2. Getting Started
35.3. Configuring the Sonar Runner
35.4. Analyzing Multi-Project Builds
35.5. Analyzing Custom Source Sets
35.6. Analyzing languages other than Java
35.7. More on configuring Sonar properties
35.8. Setting Sonar Properties from the Command Line
35.9. Executing Sonar Runner in a separate process
35.10. Tasks

36. The OSGi Plugin

36.1. Usage
36.2. Implicitly applied plugins
36.3. Tasks
36.4. Dependency management
36.5. Convention object
36.6.

37. The Eclipse Plugin

37.1. Usage
37.2. Tasks
37.3. Configuration
37.4. Customizing the generated files

38. The IDEA Plugin

38.1. Usage
38.2. Tasks
38.3. Configuration
38.4. Customizing the generated files
38.5. Further things to consider

39. The ANTLR Plugin

39.1. Usage
39.2. Tasks
39.3. Project layout
39.4. Dependency management
39.5. Convention properties
39.6. Source set properties

40. The Project Report Plugin

40.1. Usage
40.2. Tasks
40.3. Project layout
40.4. Dependency management
40.5. Convention properties

41. The Announce Plugin

41.1. Usage
41.2. Configuration

42. The Build Announcements Plugin

42.1. Usage

43. The Distribution Plugin

43.1. Usage
43.2. Tasks
43.3. Configure distributions
43.4. Multiple distributions
43.5. Extension properties

44. The Application Plugin

44.1. Usage
44.2. Tasks
44.3. Convention properties
44.4. Including other resources in the distribution

45. The Java Library Distribution Plugin

45.1. Usage
45.2. Tasks
45.3. Including other resources in the distribution

46. Bootstrap Plugin

46.1. Maven conversion - features
46.2. Usage

47. The Build Dashboard Plugin

47.1. Usage
47.2. Tasks
47.3. Project layout
47.4. Dependency management
47.5. Configuration

48. Dependency Management

48.1. Introduction
48.2. Dependency Management Best Practices
48.3. Dependency configurations
48.4. How to declare your dependencies
48.5. Working with dependencies
48.6. Repositories
48.7. How dependency resolution works
48.8. Fine-tuning the dependency resolution process
48.9. The dependency cache
48.10. Strategies for transitive dependency management

49. Publishing artifacts

49.1. Introduction
49.2. Artifacts and configurations
49.3. Declaring artifacts
49.4. Publishing artifacts
49.5. More about project libraries

50. The Maven Plugin

50.1. Usage
50.2. Tasks
50.3. Dependency management
50.4. Convention properties
50.5. Convention methods
50.6. Interacting with Maven repositories

51. The Signing Plugin

51.1. Usage
51.2. Signatory credentials
51.3. Specifying what to sign
51.4. Publishing the signatures
51.5. Signing POM files

52. C++ Support

52.1. Usage
52.2. Source code locations
52.3. Compiling
52.4. Configuring the compiler
52.5. Working with shared libraries
52.6. Dependencies
52.7. Publishing

53. The Build Lifecycle

53.1. Build phases
53.2. Settings file
53.3. Multi-project builds
53.4. Initialization
53.5. Configuration and execution of a single project build
53.6. Responding to the lifecycle in the build script

54. Multi-project Builds

54.1. Cross project configuration
54.2. Subproject configuration
54.3. Execution rules for multi-project builds
54.4. Running tasks by their absolute path
54.5. Project and task paths
54.6. Dependencies - Which dependencies?
54.7. Project lib dependencies
54.8. Parallel project execution
54.9. Decoupled Projects
54.10. Multi-Project Building and Testing
54.11. Property and method inheritance
54.12. Summary

55. Writing Custom Task Classes

55.1. Packaging a task class
55.2. Writing a simple task class
55.3. A standalone project

56. Writing Custom Plugins

56.1. Packaging a plugin
56.2. Writing a simple plugin
56.3. Getting input from the build
56.4. Working with files in custom tasks and plugins
56.5. A standalone project
56.6. Maintaining multiple domain objects

57. Organizing Build Logic

57.1. Inherited properties and methods
57.2. Injected configuration
57.3. Build sources in the buildSrc project
57.4. Running another Gradle build from a build
57.5. External dependencies for the build script
57.6. Ant optional dependencies
57.7. Summary

58. Initialization Scripts

58.1. Basic usage
58.2. Using an init script
58.3. Writing an init script
58.4. External dependencies for the init script

59. The Gradle Wrapper

59.1. Configuration
59.2. Unix file permissions
59.3. Environment variable

60. Embedding Gradle

60.1. Introduction to the Tooling API
60.2. Tooling API and the Gradle Build Daemon
60.3. Quickstart

61. Comparing Builds

61.1. Definition of terms
61.2. Current Capabilities
61.3. Comparing Gradle Builds

62. Ivy Publishing (new)

62.1. The “ivy-publish” Plugin
62.2. Publications
62.3. Repositories
62.4. Performing a publish
62.5. Generating the Ivy module descriptor file without publishing
62.6. Complete example
62.7. Future features

63. Maven Publishing (new)

63.1. The “maven-publish” Plugin
63.2. Publications
63.3. Repositories
63.4. Performing a publish
63.5. Publishing to Maven Local
63.6. Generating the POM file without publishing

A. Gradle Samples

A.1. Sample customBuildLanguage
A.2. Sample customDistribution
A.3. Sample customPlugin
A.4. Sample java/multiproject

B. Potential Traps

B.1. Groovy script variables
B.2. Configuration and execution phase

C. The Feature Lifecycle

C.1. States
C.2. Backwards Compatibility Policy

D. Gradle Command Line

D.1. Deprecated command-line options
D.2. Daemon command-line options:
D.3. System properties
D.4. Environment variables

E. Existing IDE Support and how to cope without it

E.1. IntelliJ
E.2. Eclipse
E.3. Using Gradle without IDE support

List of Examples

6.1. The first build script
6.2. Execution of a build script
6.3. A task definition shortcut
6.4. Using Groovy in Gradle's tasks
6.5. Using Groovy in Gradle's tasks
6.6. Declaration of dependencies between tasks
6.7. Lazy dependsOn - the other task does not exist (yet)
6.8. Dynamic creation of a task
6.9. Accessing a task via API - adding a dependency
6.10. Accessing a task via API - adding behaviour
6.11. Accessing task as a property of the build script
6.12. Adding extra properties to a task
6.13. Using AntBuilder to execute ant.loadfile target
6.14. Using methods to organize your build logic
6.15. Defining a default tasks
6.16. Different outcomes of build depending on chosen tasks
7.1. Using the Java plugin
7.2. Building a Java project
7.3. Adding Maven repository
7.4. Adding dependencies
7.5. Customization of MANIFEST.MF
7.6. Adding a test system property
7.7. Publishing the JAR file
7.8. Eclipse plugin
7.9. Java example - complete build file
7.10. Multi-project build - hierarchical layout
7.11. Multi-project build - settings.gradle file
7.12. Multi-project build - common configuration
7.13. Multi-project build - dependencies between projects
7.14. Multi-project build - distribution file
8.1. Declaring dependencies
8.2. Definition of an external dependency
8.3. Shortcut definition of an external dependency
8.4. Usage of Maven central repository
8.5. Usage of a remote Maven repository
8.6. Usage of a remote Ivy directory
8.7. Usage of a local Ivy directory
8.8. Publishing to an Ivy repository
8.9. Publishing to a Maven repository
9.1. Groovy plugin
9.2. Dependency on Groovy 1.7.10
9.3. Groovy example - complete build file
10.1. War plugin
10.2. Running web application with Jetty plugin
11.1. Executing multiple tasks
11.2. Excluding tasks
11.3. Abbreviated task name
11.4. Abbreviated camel case task name
11.5. Selecting the project using a build file
11.6. Selecting the project using project directory
11.7. Obtaining information about projects
11.8. Providing a description for a project
11.9. Obtaining information about tasks
11.10. Changing the content of the task report
11.11. Obtaining more information about tasks
11.12. Obtaining information about dependencies
11.13. Filtering dependency report by configuration
11.14. Getting the insight into a particular dependency
11.15. Information about properties
12.1. Launching the GUI
13.1. Accessing property of the Project object
13.2. Using local variables
13.3. Using extra properties
13.4. Groovy JDK methods
13.5. Property accessors
13.6. Method call without parentheses
13.7. List and map literals
13.8. Closure as method parameter
13.9. Closure delegates
14.1. Directory creation with mkdir
14.2. Setting properties with a gradle.properties file
14.3. Configuring the project using an external build script
14.4. Configuring arbitrary objects
14.5. Configuring arbitrary objects using a script
15.1. Defining tasks
15.2. Defining tasks - using strings
15.3. Defining tasks with alternative syntax
15.4. Accessing tasks as properties
15.5. Accessing tasks via tasks collection
15.6. Accessing tasks by path
15.7. Creating a copy task
15.8. Configuring a task - various ways
15.9. Configuring a task - fluent interface
15.10. Configuring a task - with closure
15.11. Configuring a task - with configure() method
15.12. Defining a task with closure
15.13. Adding dependency on task from another project
15.14. Adding dependency using task object
15.15. Adding dependency using closure
15.16. Adding a description to a task
15.17. Overwriting a task
15.18. Skipping a task using a predicate
15.19. Skipping tasks with StopExecutionException
15.20. Enabling and disabling tasks
15.21. A generator task
15.22. Declaring the inputs and outputs of a task
15.23. Task rule
15.24. Dependency on rule based tasks
16.1. Locating files
16.2. Creating a file collection
16.3. Using a file collection
16.4. Implementing a file collection
16.5. Creating a file tree
16.6. Using a file tree
16.7. Using an archive as a file tree
16.8. Specifying a set of files
16.9. Specifying a set of files
16.10. Copying files using the copy task
16.11. Specifying copy task source files and destination directory
16.12. Selecting the files to copy
16.13. Copying files using the copy() method
16.14. Renaming files as they are copied
16.15. Filtering files as they are copied
16.16. Nested copy specs
16.17. Using the Sync task to copy dependencies
16.18. Creating a ZIP archive
16.19. Creation of ZIP archive
16.20. Configuration of archive task - custom archive name
16.21. Configuration of archive task - appendix & classifier
17.1. Using an Ant task
17.2. Passing nested text to an Ant task
17.3. Passing nested elements to an Ant task
17.4. Using an Ant type
17.5. Using a custom Ant task
17.6. Declaring the classpath for a custom Ant task
17.7. Using a custom Ant task and dependency management together
17.8. Importing an Ant build
17.9. Task that depends on Ant target
17.10. Adding behaviour to an Ant target
17.11. Ant target that depends on Gradle task
17.12. Setting an Ant property
17.13. Getting an Ant property
17.14. Setting an Ant reference
17.15. Getting an Ant reference
18.1. Using stdout to write log messages
18.2. Writing your own log messages
18.3. Using SLF4J to write log messages
18.4. Configuring standard output capture
18.5. Configuring standard output capture for a task
18.6. Customizing what Gradle logs
20.1. Configuring an HTTP proxy
20.2. Configuring an HTTPS proxy
21.1. Applying a plugin
21.2. Applying a plugin by type
21.3. Applying a plugin by type
21.4. Tasks added by a plugin
21.5. Changing plugin defaults
21.6. Plugin convention object
23.1. Using the Java plugin
23.2. Custom Java source layout
23.3. Accessing a source set
23.4. Configuring the source directories of a source set
23.5. Defining a source set
23.6. Defining source set dependencies
23.7. Compiling a source set
23.8. Assembling a JAR for a source set
23.9. Generating the Javadoc for a source set
23.10. Running tests in a source set
23.11. Creating a unit test report for subprojects
23.12. Customization of MANIFEST.MF
23.13. Creating a manifest object.
23.14. Separate MANIFEST.MF for a particular archive
23.15. Separate MANIFEST.MF for a particular archive
24.1. Using the Groovy plugin
24.2. Custom Groovy source layout
24.3. Configuration of Groovy dependency
24.4. Configuration of Groovy test dependency
24.5. Configuration of bundled Groovy dependency
24.6. Configuration of Groovy configuration
24.7. Configuration of Groovy file dependency
25.1. Using the Scala plugin
25.2. Custom Scala source layout
25.3. Declaring a Scala dependency for production code
25.4. Declaring a Scala dependency for test code
25.5. Enabling the Fast Scala Compiler
25.6. Adjusting memory settings
25.7. Activating the Zinc based compiler
26.1. Using the War plugin
26.2. Customization of war plugin
27.1. Using the Ear plugin
27.2. Customization of ear plugin
28.1. Using the Jetty plugin
29.1. Using the Checkstyle plugin
30.1. Using the CodeNarc plugin
31.1. Using the FindBugs plugin
32.1. Using the JDepend plugin
33.1. Using the PMD plugin
34.1. Applying the Sonar plugin
34.2. Configuring Sonar connection settings
34.3. Configuring Sonar project settings
34.4. Global configuration in a multi-project build
34.5. Common project configuration in a multi-project build
34.6. Individual project configuration in a multi-project build
34.7. Configuring the language to be analyzed
34.8. Using property syntax
34.9. Analyzing custom source sets
34.10. Analyzing languages other than Java
34.11. Setting custom global properties
34.12. Setting custom project properties
34.13. Implementing custom command line properties
35.1. Applying the Sonar Runner plugin
35.2. Configuring Sonar connection settings
35.3. Global configuration settings
35.4. Shared configuration settings
35.5. Individual configuration settings
35.6. Skipping analysis of a project
35.7. Analyzing custom source sets
35.8. Analyzing languages other than Java
36.1. Using the OSGi plugin
36.2. Configuration of OSGi MANIFEST.MF file
37.1. Using the Eclipse plugin
37.2. Partial Overwrite for Classpath
37.3. Partial Overwrite for Project
37.4. Export Dependencies
37.5. Customizing the XML
38.1. Using the IDEA plugin
38.2. Partial Overwrite for Module
38.3. Partial Overwrite for Project
38.4. Export Dependencies
38.5. Customizing the XML
39.1. Using the ANTLR plugin
39.2. Declare ANTLR version
41.1. Using the announce plugin
41.2. Configure the announce plugin
41.3. Using the announce plugin
42.1. Using the build announcements plugin
42.2. Using the build announcements plugin from an init script
43.1. Using the distribution plugin
43.2. Configure the distribution name
43.3. Declare multiple distributions
43.4. Declare multiple distributions
44.1. Using the application plugin
44.2. Configure the application main class
44.3. Include output from other tasks in the application distribution
44.4. Automatically creating files for distribution
45.1. Using the java library distribution plugin
45.2. Configure the distribution name
45.3. Include files in the distribution
47.1. Using the Build Dashboard plugin
48.1. Definition of a configuration
48.2. Accessing a configuration
48.3. Configuration of a configuration
48.4. Module dependencies
48.5. Artifact only notation
48.6. Dependency with classifier
48.7. Usage of external dependency of a configuration
48.8. Client module dependencies - transitive dependencies
48.9. Project dependencies
48.10. File dependencies
48.11. Generated file dependencies
48.12. Gradle API dependencies
48.13. Gradle's Groovy dependencies
48.14. Excluding transitive dependencies
48.15. Optional attributes of dependencies
48.16. Collections and arrays of dependencies
48.17. Dependency configurations
48.18. Dependency configurations for project
48.19. Configuration.copy
48.20. Accessing declared dependencies
48.21. Configuration.files
48.22. Configuration.files with spec
48.23. Configuration.copy
48.24. Configuration.copy vs. Configuration.files
48.25. Adding central Maven repository
48.26. Adding the local Maven cache as a repository
48.27. Adding custom Maven repository
48.28. Adding additional Maven repositories for JAR files
48.29. Accessing password protected Maven repository
48.30. Flat repository resolver
48.31. Ivy repository
48.32. Ivy repository with pattern layout
48.33. Ivy repository with Maven compatible layout
48.34. Ivy repository with custom patterns
48.35. Ivy repository
48.36. Accessing a repository
48.37. Configuration of a repository
48.38. Definition of a custom repository
48.39. Forcing consistent version for a group of libraries
48.40. Using a custom versioning scheme
48.41. Blacklisting a version with a replacement
48.42. Changing dependency group and/or name at the resolution
48.43. Enabling dynamic resolve mode
48.44. Dynamic version cache control
48.45. Changing module cache control
49.1. Defining an artifact using an archive task
49.2. Defining an artifact using a file
49.3. Customizing an artifact
49.4. Map syntax for defining an artifact using a file
49.5. Configuration of the upload task
50.1. Using the Maven plugin
50.2. Creating a stand alone pom.
50.3. Upload of file to remote Maven repository
50.4. Upload of file via SSH
50.5. Customization of pom
50.6. Builder style customization of pom
50.7. Modifying auto-generated content
50.8. Customization of Maven installer
50.9. Generation of multiple poms
50.10. Accessing a mapping configuration
51.1. Using the Signing plugin
51.2. Signing a configuration
51.3. Signing a configuration output
51.4. Signing a task
51.5. Signing a task output
51.6. Conditional signing
51.7. Signing a POM for deployment
52.1. Using the 'cpp-exe' plugin
52.2. Using the 'cpp-lib' plugin
52.3. Supplying arbitrary args to the compiler
52.4. Declaring dependencies
52.5. Declaring project dependencies
52.6. Uploading exe or lib
53.1. Single project build
53.2. Hierarchical layout
53.3. Flat layout
53.4. Modification of elements of the project tree
53.5. Modification of elements of the project tree
53.6. Adding of test task to each project which has certain property set
53.7. Notifications
53.8. Setting of certain property to all tasks
53.9. Logging of start and end of each task execution
54.1. Multi-project tree - water & bluewhale projects
54.2. Build script of water (parent) project
54.3. Multi-project tree - water, bluewhale & krill projects
54.4. Water project build script
54.5. Defining common behaviour of all projects and subprojects
54.6. Defining specific behaviour for particular project
54.7. Defining specific behaviour for project krill
54.8. Adding custom behaviour to some projects (filtered by project name)
54.9. Adding custom behaviour to some projects (filtered by project properties)
54.10. Running build from subproject
54.11. Evaluation and execution of projects
54.12. Evaluation and execution of projects
54.13. Running tasks by their absolute path
54.14. Dependencies and execution order
54.15. Dependencies and execution order
54.16. Dependencies and execution order
54.17. Declaring dependencies
54.18. Declaring dependencies
54.19. Cross project task dependencies
54.20. Configuration time dependencies
54.21. Configuration time dependencies - evaluationDependsOn
54.22. Configuration time dependencies
54.23. Dependencies - real life example - crossproject configuration
54.24. Project lib dependencies
54.25. Project lib dependencies
54.26. Fine grained control over dependencies
54.27. Build and Test Single Project
54.28. Partial Build and Test Single Project
54.29. Build and Test Depended On Projects
54.30. Build and Test Dependent Projects
55.1. Defining a custom task
55.2. A hello world task
55.3. A customizable hello world task
55.4. A build for a custom task
55.5. A custom task
55.6. Using a custom task in another project
55.7. Testing a custom task
56.1. A custom plugin
56.2. A custom plugin extension
56.3. A custom plugin with configuration closure
56.4. Evaluating file properties lazily
56.5. A build for a custom plugin
56.6. Wiring for a custom plugin
56.7. Using a custom plugin in another project
56.8. Testing a custom plugin
56.9. Managing domain objects
57.1. Using inherited properties and methods
57.2. Using injected properties and methods
57.3. Custom buildSrc build script
57.4. Adding subprojects to the root buildSrc project
57.5. Running another build from a build
57.6. Declaring external dependencies for the build script
57.7. A build script with external dependencies
57.8. Ant optional dependencies
58.1. Using init script to perform extra configuration before projects are evaluated
58.2. Declaring external dependencies for an init script
58.3. An init script with external dependencies
59.1. Wrapper task
59.2. Wrapper generated files
59.3. Configuration of wrapper task
62.1. Applying the “ivy-publish” plugin
62.2. Publishing a java module to Ivy
62.3. Publishing additional artifact to Ivy
62.4. Customizing the module descriptor file
62.5. Declaring repositories to publish to
62.6. Choosing a particular publication to publish
62.7. Publishing all publications via the “publish” lifecycle task
62.8. Generating the Ivy module descriptor file
62.9. Publishing a java module
62.10. Example generated ivy.xml
63.1. Applying the 'maven-publish' plugin
63.2. Adding a MavenPublication for a java component
63.3. Adding additional artifact to a MavenPublication
63.4. Modifying the POM file
63.5. Declaring repositories to publish to
63.6. Publishing a project to a Maven repository
63.7. Publish a project to the Maven local repository
63.8. Generate a POM file without publishing
B.1. Variables scope: local and script wide
B.2. Distinct configuration and execution phase