Gradle Dependency Management

Generating POM files

An important part of a Maven publication is the POM file. We already saw that Gradle added a generatePom<publicationName> task to our project. Furthermore, we can define some properties of the POM file inside a publication configuration. Gradle also offers a hook to customize the generated POM file even further.

Gradle uses the project's version, group, and name properties in the generated POM file. We create a new example build file where we define the project properties so that they are included in the POM file. The following code shows this:

apply plugin: 'maven-publish' apply plugin: 'java' // Defined project properties, that are // used in the generated POM file. // The name of the project is by default // the directory ...