Gradle: Make a 3rd party jar available to local gradle repository

Question

currently, I\'m testing Gradle as an alternative to Maven. In my projects, there are some 3rd party jars, which aren\'t available in any (Maven) repositories. My problem is

Answer 1

you can include your file system JAR dependencies as:

dependencies {
    runtime files('libs/a.jar', 'libs/b.jar')
    runtime fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar')
}

you may change runtime for compile/testCompile/etc..