Index

• Setup
• Create a simple application
• Create an application with root project
• Adding internal dependencies
• Publishing on maven repository
• Using "external" projects
• Using Spring boot
• Adding Junit and JaCoCo
• Profiles

Source code on github: https://github.com/kendarorg/Gradle101

Setup

Download the sources

• Here
• On Github

Windows Portable

Let's start with an harmless setup. Create a directory and extract all the following "portable servers" (they can be founded, with others at http://kendar.org/?p=/system/portableservers). If you had already installed a JDK from the same source remember to choose the jdk-11.

• Portable servers Common: http://www.kendar.org/hugefiles/portable-server-commons-2.0.0.zip
• Gradle: http://www.kendar.org/hugefiles/gradle-6.0.1.zip
• OpenJDK 13: http://www.kendar.org/hugefiles/jdk-13.0.1.zip

Then you can run "pgradle.bat" directly from explorer and go into the directory in wihich you will create your projects

Windows standard

Or you can bloat your machine with a complete setup

• Install OpenJdk, you can download it here: https://jdk.java.net/13/ extracting it in C:\Program Files\jdk-13.0.2

• Go on 'Control Panel->(System and Security->)System->Advanced System Settings'

• Open the 'Advanced' tab and 'Environment variables'

• Add to 'User variables' on the 'Path' the following:

   ;C:\Program Files\jdk-13.0.2\bin
  

• The new JAVA_HOME variable with value C:\Program Files\jdk-13.0.2

• The new JAVA variable with value C:\Program Files\jdk-13.0.2\bin\java.exe

• Download and install Gradle following the instructions https://gradle.org/install/#manually