Launching Gradle builds from Eclipse

Question

We\'re looking at converting our Ant build to Gradle.

In regards to integration with Eclipse, we are looking for (conceptually) equivalent functionality for launch

Answer 1

This is kind of an old post, but the SpringSource STS team has released a plugin: http://static.springsource.org/sts/docs/latest/reference/html/gradle/

Installation instructions can be found here: http://static.springsource.org/sts/docs/latest/reference/html/gradle/installation.html

My experience has been pretty positive with it so far. For straight-up Java projects it works quite well. I am having some issues generating correct war files through Eclipse, while using the Gradle plugin, but gradle itself does it wonderfully. I am relatively new to gradle and the plugin though, so it could be something that I am missing.