Building a uberjar with Gradle

Question

I am a Gradle novice. I want to build a uberjar (AKA fatjar) that includes all the transitive dependencies of the project. What lines do I need to add to my \"build.gradle\"

Answer 1

Simply add this to your java module's build.gradle.

mainClassName = "my.main.Class"

jar {
  manifest { 
    attributes "Main-Class": "$mainClassName"
  }  

  from {
    configurations.compile.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) }
  }
}

This will result in [module_name]/build/libs/[module_name].jar file.