Gradle Exec task not exiting

Question

I am new to Gradle and I am using a small task to start/stop local tomcat server.

My gradle task:

task startTomcat(type: Exec){
    workingDir ENV[\         


        

Answer 1

To immediately exit after the external process started I used:

task startServer(type:Exec) {
  ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("cmd","/c","start.bat")
  pb.directory(new File("workingFolder"))
  pb.start();
}