Overview

This is an example of using custom Gradle distributions for projects with different setup - we create ‘library’ and ‘service’ distributions and a sample project which uses ‘service’.

Note: java 21 is required

Custom Distributions

custom distribution project configures two custom Gradle distribution - library and service. Both of them use shared setup.

Note: a cool feature of init scripts is that we can apply Gradle plugins from them. Unfortunately, it’s necessary to do that by specifying complete plugin class name - import by plugin id is not supported there (some old Gradle design bug).

Client Project

client project is configured to use the ‘service’ distribution and defines only bare minimum of the configuration.

In Action

1. Build custom distribution
   pushd custom-distribution; ./gradlew buildGradleDist; popd
2. Run the client project
   pushd client-project; ./gradlew bootRun; popd
3. Call a web server started by the client project and ensure that it works

    curl 127.0.0.1:8080/ping
    Hi there!