gradle to bundle nested jar dependencies into module output jar

Question

How to make gradle to included some dependencies into module resulted jar as jar? i.e. to make jar with nested jar's e.g. in lib folder ?

This is not Android project, and this should be done for many modules in multi-module project, so fatJar, uberJar, shadowJar alike solutions seem not to fit.

Answer 1

You just need to add an additional from directive to include dependencies in your jar:

task jarJar(type: Jar) {
    baseName = project.name + '-jarjar'
    from { configurations.compile }
    with jar
}