GRADLE: How to copy files from another .jar into your resulting output .jar

In our project we like to deliver a single jar as the final product, if you need to copy files that live on an existing jar into the Gradle’s output jar, this example shows you how to do that (and more) [pastacode lang=”java” manual=”jar%20%7B%0A%2F%2Fthis%20is%20how%20you%20change%20the%20name%20of%20the%20output%20jar%0AarchiveName%3D%E2%80%99frostwire.jar%E2%80%99%0A%0A%2F%2Fsome%20exclusion%20rules%20to%20keep%20your%20.jar%20clean%0Aexclude(%E2%80%98META-INF%2F*.SF%E2%80%99%2C%20%E2%80%98META-INF%2F*.DSA%E2%80%99%2C%20%E2%80%98META-INF%2F*.RSA%E2%80%99%2C%20%E2%80%98META-INF%2F*.MF%E2%80%99)%0A%0A%2F%2Fhere%20we%20grab%20all%20the%20.class%20files%20inside%20messages.jar%20and%20we%20put%20them%20in%20our%20resulting%20jar%0Afrom%20(zipTree(%E2%80%98lib%2Fjars%2Fmessages.jar%E2%80%99))%20%7B%0Ainclude%20%E2%80%98**%2F*.class%E2%80%99%0A%7D%0A%0A%2F%2Fhow%20to%20manipulate%20the%20jar%E2%80%99s%20manifest%0Amanifest%20%7B%0Aattributes%20%E2%80%98Main-Class%E2%80%99%3A%20%E2%80%98com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main%E2%80%99%0A%7D%0A%7D” message=”” highlight=”” provider=”manual”/]

GRADLE: How to add a list of local .jar files to the build classpath

Sometimes you don’t want/cant use maven repos, all you have is a bunch of local jars on disk that you want to use as part of your compilation classpath, and the freaking gradle documentation is too vague. Here is an example: [pastacode lang=”java” manual=”dependencies%20%7B%0Acompile%20files(%E2%80%98lib%2Fjars%2Fgettext-commons.jar%E2%80%99%2C%0A%E2%80%98lib%2Fjars%2Flucene-3.5.0.jar%E2%80%99%2C%0A%E2%80%98lib%2Fjaudiotagger.jar%E2%80%99%2C%0A%E2%80%98lib%2Fjars%2Fh2-1.3.164.jar%E2%80%99%2C%0A%E2%80%98lib%2Fjars%2Fmessages.jar%E2%80%99%2C%0A%E2%80%98lib%2Fjars%2Fslf4j-api-1.7.5.jar%E2%80%99%2C%0A%E2%80%98lib%2Fjars%2Fjaudiotagger.jar%E2%80%99%2C%0A%E2%80%98lib%2Fjars%2Fmetadata-extractor-2.6.2.jar%E2%80%99%0A)%0A%7D” message=”” highlight=”” provider=”manual”/]