Hello,
I'm a newbie when it comes to bundling wars. I figured Gradle could help
with this. Oh, I'm also a newbie Gradle user.
I have a WAR project that depends on a number of other projects -the jars
produced by the sub-projects. This means that my WAR project has a compile
time dependency on my sub projects. Obviously, when I create my WAR, it
will need to bundle the runtime dependencies of my sub projects in the WAR.
This is where I'm having a problem. All of the runtime dependencies of the
sub-projects live in the 'lib' folder of the each sub-project. I noticed
that Gradle only looks in the lib folder (repository) of the WAR when trying
to find these run-time dependencies. What's the best way to solve this
problem?
- Is it best practice for the WAR project to include all of the run-time
dependencies of the sub-projects in its own 'lib' folder? This doesn't feel
right
- Is it possible to have Gradle look in the 'lib' folder of each sub-project
for the appropriate transitive jars? If so, is there an automatic mechanism
for this? If not, is there a generic way to refer to the repository
location of my sub-projects?
I'm not using remote repositories for any of these projects. It's all
stored locally. I tried adding 'dependsOnChildren()' in my ":Web
Application" project, but it didn't help.
Thanks for any help you all might provide. I'm really enjoying Gradle so
far.
Andrew
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Here's an example of my configuration...
Folders:
/Projects
/Sub Project
/lib
/Web Application
/lib
settings.gradle
build.gradle
In settings.gradle: include 'Sub Project', 'Web Application'
In build.gradle:
subprojects {
usePlugin('java')
version = '1.0'
sourceCompatibility = 1.6
targetCompatiblity = 1.6
}
project(":Sub Project") {
repositories {
flatDir name: 'localRepositories', dirs: ["${projectDir}/lib"]
}
dependencies {
compile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '3.8.2'
runtime name: 'dbunit', version: '2.0'
}
}
project(":Web Project") {
usePlugin('war')
repositories {
flatDir name: 'localRepositories', dirs:
["${projectDir}/WEB-INF/lib"]
}
dependencies {
compile project(":Sub Project")
}
}
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It's only looking in "${projectDir}/WEB-INF/lib" for the transitive runtime
jars when bundling the WAR. In this example, the runtime jar dbunit only
lives in '/Projects/Sub Project/lib'
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