The ultimate workaround I put in place was to declare the war artifact on the runtime configuration in the war project's build file:
artifacts { compile war } ...then I filter out the jar file when assembling my distribution in the assembly project's build file: task dist(type: Zip) { into("lib") { from configurations.default.allArtifacts.files exclude "mywar.jar" } -- View this message in context: http://gradle.1045684.n5.nabble.com/Can-t-access-war-artifact-from-dependencies-in-1-0-tp5124737p5145858.html Sent from the gradle-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email