Gradle dependencies with file directories

Question

I'm writing an EJB jar module for a jboss ear application. I'm using gradle and I don't want to try to declare all of the different dependencies that the jar would rely on at runtime from JBoss. Is there a way to declare dependencies on all files within a directory tree.

Answer 1

In the dependencies section of your build.gradle file you can use a FileTree reference. For example:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: "${jbossDir}/client", includes: ['*.jar'])
}

This will include all of the JAR files in the JBoss / client directory as compile-time dependencies.