Table 22.3. Integration plugins
Plugin Id	Automatically	Works	Description
	applies	with
announce	-	-	Publish messages to your favourite
			platforms, such as Twitter or Growl.
application	java	-	Adds tasks for running and bundling
			a project as application.
build-announcements	announce	-	Sends local announcements to your
			desktop about interesting events in
			the build lifecycle.

ear	-
jetty	war

maven	-
osgi	java-base
war	java

java Adds support for building J2EE applications.

-Deploys your web application to a Jetty web container embedded in the build. See also Chapter 10, Web Application Quickstart.

java, warAdds support for deploying artifacts to Maven repositories.

java Adds support for building OSGi bundles.

-Adds support for assembling web application WAR files. See also Chapter 10, Web Application Quickstart.

22.4. Software development plugins

These plugins provide help with your software development process.

Table 22.4. Software development plugins

Plugin Id	Automatically	Works	Description
	applies	with

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-

java

ear, war

, scala

checkstyle	java-base	-	Performs quality	checks	on your
			project's Java source files using
			Checkstyle and	generates	reports
			from these checks.

codenarc

eclipse

eclipse-wtp

findbugs

idea

jdepend

groovy-base

-

-

java-base

-

java-base

-Performs quality checks on your project's Groovy source files using CodeNarc and generates reports from these checks.

java, groovyGenerates files that are used by Eclipse IDE, thus making it possible to import the project into Eclipse. See also Chapter 7, Java Quickstart.

Does the same as the eclipse plugin plus generates eclipse WTP (Web Tools Platform) configuration files. After importing to eclipse your war/ear projects should be configured to work with WTP. See also Chapter 7, Java Quickstart.

-Performs quality checks on your project's Java source files using FindBugs and generates reports from these checks.

Generates files that are used by Intellij IDEA IDE, thus making it possible to import the project into IDEA.

-Performs quality checks on your project's source files usingJDepend and generates reports from these checks.

pmd java-base

project-report reporting-base

Performs quality checks on your project's Java source files usingPMD and generates reports from these checks.

Generates reports containing useful information about your Gradle build.

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signing	base	-	Adds the ability to digitally sign built
			files and artifacts.
sonar	-	-	Provides integration with the Sonar
			code quality platform.

22.5. Base plugins

These plugins form the basic building blocks which the other plugins are assembled from. They are available for you to use in your build files, and are listed here for completeness. However, be aware that they are not yet considered part of Gradle's public API. As such, these plugins are no documented in the user guide. You might refer to their API documentation to learn more about them.

Table 22.5. Base plugins

Plugin Id	Description
base	Adds the standard lifecycle tasks and configures reasonable defaults for the
	archive tasks:

	adds buildConfigurationName tasks. Those tasks assemble the
	artifacts belonging to the specified configuration.
	adds uploadConfigurationName tasks. Those tasks assemble and
	upload the artifacts belonging to the specified configuration.
	configures reasonable default values for all archive tasks (e.g. tasks
	that inherit from AbstractArchiveTask). For example, the archive
	tasks are tasks of types: Jar, Tar, Zip. Specifically, destinationDir
	, baseName and version properties of the archive tasks are
	preconfigured with defaults. This is extremely useful because it drives
	consistency across projects; the consistency regarding naming
	conventions of archives and their location after the build completed.
java-base	Adds the source sets concept to the project. Does not add any particular
	source sets.
groovy-base	Adds the Groovy source sets concept to the project.
scala-base	Adds the Scala source sets concept to the project.
reporting-base	Adds some shared convention properties to the project, relating to report
	generation.

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22.6. Third party plugins

You can find a list of external plugins on the wiki.

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