Building a JavaFX application using Gradle

Question

I\'m trying to build a relatively simple JavaFX application using Gradle. However, I have no idea how to do it.

I\'m relatively new to Gradle, and for simple (non-

Answer 1

I would use the gradle init command as:

thufir@dur:~/NetBeansProjects$ 
thufir@dur:~/NetBeansProjects$ git clone git@github.com:THUFIR/javaFX.git
Cloning into 'javaFX'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 4, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Total 4 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (4/4), 12.48 KiB | 2.08 MiB/s, done.
thufir@dur:~/NetBeansProjects$ 
thufir@dur:~/NetBeansProjects$ cd javaFX/
thufir@dur:~/NetBeansProjects/javaFX$ 
thufir@dur:~/NetBeansProjects/javaFX$ tree
.
├── LICENSE
└── README.md

0 directories, 2 files
thufir@dur:~/NetBeansProjects/javaFX$ 
thufir@dur:~/NetBeansProjects/javaFX$ gradle init --type java-application --test-framework testng --dsl kotlin

Project name (default: javaFX): 

Source package (default: javaFX): net.bounceme.dur.javafx

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 17s
2 actionable tasks: 2 executed
thufir@dur:~/NetBeansProjects/javaFX$ 
thufir@dur:~/NetBeansProjects/javaFX$ tree
.
├── build.gradle.kts
├── gradle
│   └── wrapper
│       ├── gradle-wrapper.jar
│       └── gradle-wrapper.properties
├── gradlew
├── gradlew.bat
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── settings.gradle.kts
└── src
    ├── main
    │   ├── java
    │   │   └── net
    │   │       └── bounceme
    │   │           └── dur
    │   │               └── javafx
    │   │                   └── App.java
    │   └── resources
    └── test
        ├── java
        │   └── net
        │       └── bounceme
        │           └── dur
        │               └── javafx
        │                   └── AppTest.java
        └── resources

17 directories, 10 files
thufir@dur:~/NetBeansProjects/javaFX$ 

here I've first cloned an empty repository (except for the license and readme) from github first, then initialized with gradle. Note that it's of type java-application and is using kotlin for the dsl; those can be omittied or changed to, for example, --type java-library.