Building UIMA AEs with Gradle?

[Jens Grivolla]

Hi,

we are sometimes running into problems with Maven when we want to define 
tasks to move resources into specific locations, etc. This seems to 
often lead to having to use quite a few Maven plugins and makes the POM 
hard to manage.

Would Gradle be a better option, in order to have the dependency 
management from Maven while being able to more easily define custom 
manipulations of resources to help with packaging? Is it possible to 
generate PEAR packages from Gradle? There are afaik plugins for Maven 
and Ant, so would we then reference an Ant task from Gradle?

Thanks,
Jens