I am having an existing java dynamic web project which I created using eclipse. I usually just create a war file via eclipse and then deploy it to tomcat.
Now I want to use Gradle to build my project and create the war file. Is there an eclipse plugin to do that? If not then how can I use gradle with my existing project? My existing project structure is what you get when you create a dynamic web project via eclipse and I don't want to change it.
I have tried going through tutorials and using converting to Gradle project using gradle plugin. Can someone atleast point to a blog or tutorial or a way to start things?
MyProject
|java resources
|--src
|-- -- packages
|-- -- .properties files
|--test
|-- -- packages
|build
|-- classes
|WebContent
|-- MetaINF
|-- WEB-INF
|-- -- lib // all my libraries are here. there is no specific repo for now
|-- -- web.xml
My build.gradle :
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse-wtp'
apply plugin: 'war'
sourceCompatibility = 1.7
targetCompatibility = 1.7
version = '2.0'
war {
baseName = 'Gradle'
version = '1.2'
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
repositories {
flatDir {
dirs 'lib'
}
}
dependencies {
compile group: 'commons-collections', name: 'commons-collections', version: '3.2'
testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.+'
compile files('./lib/myjar.jar')
compile 'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.5'
compile 'commons-lang:commons-lang:2.6'
compile 'org.hibernate:hibernate-entitymanager:4.3.8.Final'
compile 'org.apache.axis2:axis2-kernel:1.6.2'
compile 'org.apache.axis2:axis2-adb:1.6.2'
compile 'com.sun.jersey:jersey-server:1.19'
compile 'com.sun.jersey:jersey-client:1.19'
compile 'log4j:log4j:1.2.17'
compile 'org.apache.axis2:axis2-transport-local:1.6.2'
compile 'org.apache.axis2:axis2-transport-http:1.6.2'
providedCompile 'javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.3'
testCompile 'junit:junit:4.9'
testCompile 'org.jmock:jmock:2.6.0'
testCompile 'org.jmock:jmock-junit4:2.6.0'
testCompile 'org.jmock:jmock-legacy:2.6.0'
}
test {
systemProperties 'property': 'value'
}
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<display-name>Gradle</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>HTTP REST Service</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
//in the above line It is showing a warning: servlet-class references to non-existent class "com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer"
<init-param>
<param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>
<param-value>org.gradle</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>HTTP REST Service</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
My proj structure
Here's a minimal build.gradle
file that should get you going. Build with the command gradle war
.
apply plugin: 'war'
// See http://gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/war_plugin.html
// Section 26.5. Convention properties
webAppDirName = 'WebContent'
// See http://gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/java_plugin.html
// Section 23.4.1. Changing the project layout
sourceSets {
main {
// where does the Java source code live?
java {
srcDir 'Java Resources/src'
}
// where do classpath resources like *.properties files live?
resources {
srcDir 'Java Resources/src'
}
}
}
// See http://gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/dependency_management.html
// Section 51.4.4. File dependencies
dependencies {
// Where do the JARs live on the filesystem?
compile fileTree(dir: "${webAppDirName}/WEB-INF/lib", include: '*.jar')
}