Gradle Dependency Management

Getting information about dependencies

We have seen how we can define dependencies in our build scripts. To get more information about our dependencies, we can use the dependencies task. When we invoke the task, we can see which dependencies belong to the available configurations of our project. Also, any transitive dependencies are shown. The next example build file defines a dependency on Spring beans and we apply the Java plugin. We also specify a repository in the repositories configuration block. We will learn more about repositories in the next chapter. The following code captures the discussion in this paragraph:

apply plugin: 'java' repositories { // Repository definition for JCenter Bintray. // Needed to download artifacts. Repository ...