Hi Dean, Gradle uses configuration by convention. this means you can use project structure, but you're not forced to. let's start step by step.
To tell gradle you want to build a war you should start your build file with: --------------- apply plugin:"war" --------------- see http://gradle.org/0.9-rc-1/docs/userguide/userguide_single.html#web_project_tutorial Now you can run on this one liner gradle script different gradle tasks (use gradle -t to get an overview). E.g. "gradle war" creates a war file. I assume you havn't your source code located under src/main/java? let's assume you have all your sources located in a "src" folder. you have to tell gradle about this non default location of your sources by adding the following two lines: --------------- sourceSets.main.java.srcDirs = ['src'] sourceSets.main.resources.srcDirs = ['src'] --------------- this means that your java source code is located in 'src' and your resource files (*.properties, etc.) too. see http://gradle.org/0.9-rc-1/docs/userguide/userguide_single.html#N11B7A for further informations about customizing your project layout. the war plugin looks for your webapp files in src/main/webapp. to change this you can add: ---------------- webAppDirName = "webapp" ---------------- "webapp" is the name of your webapp folder. see http://gradle.org/0.9-rc-1/docs/userguide/userguide_single.html#N1299C now if you run "gradle war" most likely you get lots of compile errors since gradle has no clue where your third party libs are located. where do you store your thirdparty libs? in a "lib" folder? use the following lines to add this folder to your gradle build file: --------------- repositories { flatDir name: 'localRepository', dirs: 'lib' } --------------- see http://gradle.org/0.9-rc-1/docs/userguide/userguide_single.html#N10688 for details. now you must add your dependencies like this: --------------- repositories { compile name: 'struts2-core' runtime name: 'spring-core' ... } --------------- see http://gradle.org/0.9-rc-1/docs/userguide/userguide_single.html#dependency_management for further details after adding all your dependencies. gradle war should work for you. have fun. regards, René ------------------------------------ Rene Groeschke [email protected] http://www.breskeby.com http://twitter.com/breskeby ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
