Could not find or load main class, after build by gradle

Question

I've made a project in maven and spring boot. After build it via maven it worked perfect. After all I decided to swap my project into gradle. And now, after:

gradle build

The following exception is comming.Error:

Error: Could not find or load main class

Here are things I checked before I asked this question:

• made sure that I have main method (which i obviously have, maven did thing great)
• checked path to main class in manifest and in jar task in gradle
• found out that compiled class is in specified jar in specified path

• Made a jar task in gradle that looks like this:

  jar {
    manifest {
      attributes 'Main-Class': 'pl.sygnity.schedulein.App'
    }
  }
  

I have no idea what i can do more about it. Could you help me?

Edit. It's important i wish to use my program as jar so:

java -jar xx.jar

Edit2.

gradle run

makes my App start. So it looks like as if gradle build is not working somehow...

Answer 1

You need to define the main class in the build.gradle file. (You may have more than one, and you need to choose which one to use)

I like to do it with Gradle - the application plugin

apply plugin: 'application'
mainClassName = "<Your main class>"

Then you can run gradle install to build the program with an executor.