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ehudon •

The answer the first question, the only thing you need for compiling and building a java app is the java plugin. You can have a build.gradle file with only the following line:

apply plugin: 'java'
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From here, you can decide to add other plugins for packaging, for a specific IDE, etc.

For the second question, the gradle documentation is well done. I would start here docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/....

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Calin Baenen •

I tried the first thing already, it throws an error, and I was advised to use:

plugins {
    id "java"
}
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Is this (not) correct?

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ehudon •

Yes, this is correct. Both:

apply plugin: 'java'
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and

plugins {
    id "java"
}
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are importing the java plugin for your project. From there you can use gradle build to build your project.

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Calin Baenen •

Do I need both, or just the bottom one (since the first one gives me an error (Why does it do that?))?
How do I structure it, the plugins block, then the call to apply( )?

Thanks for your help so far.
Cheers.

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ehudon • • Edited

No what you have above is enough, you only need the lines above in a file named build.gradle. You will need to use gradle conventions which are the same as maven. I created a gist for you here gist.github.com/ehudon/7379f19f33b.... You can copy this file in your project and it should work if you have the correct project layout.