Gradle with Eclipse

Gradle Inc. provides the Gradle tools and plugins for the Eclipse IDE. This tool allows you to create and import Gradle enabled projects into the Eclipse IDE. In addition, it allows you to run Gradle tasks and monitor the execution of the tasks.

The Eclipse project itself is called Buildship. The source code of this project is available on GitHub at https://github.com/eclipse/Buildship.

There are two options for installing Gradle plugins on Eclipse. These are as follows:

  • Via the Eclipse Marketplace
  • Via the Eclipse Update Manager

First, let's see how to install Buildship plugins for Grade build on Eclipse using Marketplace: Eclipse | Help | Eclipse Marketplace:

Figure 6: Installing Buildship plugins for Grade build on ...

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