Trying Gradle build - “Task 'build' not found in root project”

Question

I just started to read \"Pro Spring MVC with web flow\" and it comes with a code sample that I want to follow.

• What I want - I want to build

Answer 1

You didn't do what you're being asked to do.

What is asked:

I have to execute ../gradlew build

What you do

cd ..
gradlew build

That's not the same thing.

The first one will use the gradlew command found in the .. directory (mdeinum...), and look for the build file to execute in the current directory, which is (for example) chapter1-bookstore.

The second one will execute the gradlew command found in the current directory (mdeinum...), and look for the build file to execute in the current directory, which is mdeinum....

So the build file executed is not the same.