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Building Jenkins plugins with Gradle

Andrew Bayer
January 4, 2012
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Until now, Jenkins plugins written in Java or Groovy could only be built with Maven, using the maven-hpi-plugin to generate a proper manifest and archive which Jenkins can consume. But starting now, you can also use Gradle!

See the wiki for information on how you can use Gradle and the new gradle-jpi-plugin to build, test and release your Java or Groovy Jenkins plugin.

About the author

Andrew Bayer

Andrew was a core committer to Hudson and the author of numerous plugins.