Gradle (i) Use Gradle to fight a war package in an existing Web project __web

GRADLE official website Download the latest compression package, after decompression set environment variable Gradle_home to extract the directory, in the path before adding%gradle_home%\lib;  Open cmd run gradle-v  view version currently used 2.14

Build Build.gradle content under the original project as follows

Apply plugin: ' War '
  
sourcecompatibility = 1.6   //Set JDK version
Webappdirname = ' webcontent '    //Set WEBAPP root directory 
  //set Java source directory
sourcesets {
    main {
            srcdir ' src '
        }
        Resources {
            Srcdir ' Resources '}}
  
//Set MAVEN library address
repositories { 
    maven {URL ' http://maven.oschina.net/ content/groups/public/'}
}

dependencies {
	Tasks.withtype (javacompile) {
		options.encoding = " UTF-8 "
	}
    Compile Filetree (dir: ' Webcontent/web-inf/lib ', include: [' *.jar '])
    //Use this
    when there is no network compileonly files (' C:/java/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.37/lib/servlet-api.jar ')
    
    //network is with MAVEN
    // Providedcompile ' javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.5 '//compile period
}
  

Finally, under CMD, enter project ROOT to run Gradle build and generate war package under Build/lib

Gradle can run like ant in a network environment or download a dependency package like Maven