Andreas, I had the same question you did after reading the first several chapters of the User's Guide. I recently posted my question on this list.
What the User's Guide doesn't explain is that Gradle is a convention-based build system. The gradle build examples that come with the distribution are surprisingly short. They don't need to declare many of the things that you would declare with Ant because they follow the gradle (Maven2) convention. It's built into gradle and the Java Plugin by default. The problem comes when you have to adapt gradle to an existing project strucure. You're faced with re-defining the conventions that gradle expects. Others have told me that it's not that difficult to do, but I haven't had time to try it so far. The User's Guide needs to be re-written. It just leaves you scratching your head the way it is now. It also needs to show how to re-define the Java Plugin for the various ways that existing Java/J2EE projects are structured. Good luck. --- On Thu, 6/4/09, Andreas Jöcker <[email protected]> wrote: From: Andreas Jöcker <[email protected]> Subject: [gradle-user] A naive question To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009, 1:20 AM Hi all, I'm just started to get to know to gradle and would like to use it more heavily in our projects. I read the wonderful User's guide but what I miss is a simple build file example (or was I too blind to see it ?) The user guide shows nicely several parts of a building system, but a simple example would be nice. Can anyone point me to something or give me an example of a simple build file in gradle, which e.g. has dependencies, compiles, builds a jar / war or whatever. I just want to see some real file to see the syntax working.... Thanks for that Andreas -- Andreas Jöcker GiS - Gesellschaft für integrierte Systemplanung mbH Junkersstr. 2 69469 Weinheim e-mail [email protected] Telefon +49 6201 503-59 Fax +49 6201 503-66 Gesellschaft für integrierte Systemplanung mbH Geschäftsführer: Eckhard Haffmann, Alfred Gai, Bernd Heselmann Sitz der Gesellschaft: Zeppelinstr. 11 - 91052 Erlangen Amtsgericht Fürth/Bayern - Handelsregister-Nr. HRB 3435 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
