[jboss-user] [JBoss Tools] - Gradle and Java EE Web Project

[Juergen Zimmermann]

Juergen Zimmermann [https://community.jboss.org/people/Juergen.Zimmermann] created the discussion

"Gradle and Java EE Web Project"

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In Java EE Web Projects I was having a pom.xml so far. Is it possible to use a Gradle build script instead of pom.xml or is pom.xml required because of the underlying M2E plugin?
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[Jesper Skov]

Jesper Skov [https://community.jboss.org/people/jskovjyskebankdk] created the discussion

"Re: Gradle and Java EE Web Project"

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We only use Gradle. We don't even load the M2E plugin.

Instead we have a custom plugin that runs Gradle (and fetches dependencies via Ivy).
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[Max Rydahl Andersen]

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"Re: Gradle and Java EE Web Project"

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m2e does not require the pom.xml, the pom.xml is what requires m2e for things to work - thus if no pom.xml, no m2e plugin used/loaded.

Thus you can go write your gradle files, but as things are now you will need to manually configure a lot of things since we can't see what features you enable/disable.

There is an Eclipse Gradle plugin that does some of the basics (setup dependencies, configure basic wtp etc.) but they are still limited in comparison to the m2e and m2e-wtp integration.
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