[gradle-user] Running Tests on Tomcat

[Neil Chaudhuri]

As a recovering Maven user, I am trying to replicate the Jetty plugin in Maven 
with something similar using Tomcat and Gradle in order to run some tests. To 
that end, I have the following set up:

task deploy(dependsOn: [cleanTomcat, copyWarToTomcat, startTomcat]) << {}

task runServerTests(type: Test, dependsOn: deploy) << {
  useTestNG()
  includes = ["**/*IT.class"]
  doLast {
      stopTomcat
  }
}

The problem is that Gradle doesn't know when startTomcat is done because the 
server just starts and that's it. I am exploring ways to register some sort of 
output for the task or to write some sort of listener, but I was curious if 
anyone had succeeded at this or had any ideas on a better approach.

Thanks.