Eclipse not recognizing project as Gradle Project

Question

I want to build a project with gradle. I have included build.gradle in my project. But eclipse is not recognizing it as gradle project and I can't build it. Can anybody give a solution for this.

Answer 1

I just had this problem in Spring Tool Suite.

Here's what I did.

1. Right-click on project for context menu.
2. Go to "Configure" near the bottom of menu (for me)
3. Select sub-menu option of "Convert to Gradle project".
4. Refresh project.

The imported project's build.gradle then appeared in the drop-down options of the Gradle view.

Answer 2

If you are using the Buildship Eclipse plugin for Gradle integration, you can try to add the following snippet into your build.gradle file:

eclipse {
    project.natures 'org.eclipse.buildship.core.gradleprojectnature'
    .....
}

Then run "gradle eclipse" to re-generate Eclipse project files and refresh your project in Eclipse.

Answer 3

In Eclipse Neon you:

Right-click on your project --> Configure --> Add Gradle Nature.

Your project will automatically refresh and you will see all the dependencies being downloaded by Gradle.