Gradle store on local file system

Question

How does Gradle store downloaded jar files on the local file system? Maven stores them in the .m2 directory under USER_HOME, but where does Gradle

Answer 1

Many answers are correct! I want to add that you can easily find your download location with

gradle --info build

like described in https://stackoverflow.com/a/54000767/4471199.

New downloaded artifacts will be shown in stdout:

Downloading https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-parent/2.1.7.RELEASE/spring-boot-parent-2.1.7.RELEASE.pom to /tmp/gradle_download551283009937119777bin

In this case, I used the docker image gradle:5.6.2-jdk12. As you can see, the docker container uses /tmp as download location.