This project defines a re-usable Gradle custom Plugin. The plugin provides sensible Edina specific configuration and for defined plugins. Each plugin used is defined below.

List of Plugins:

• Java
• War
• Maven
• JaCoCo
• Checkstyle
• PMD
• JDepend
• FindBugs

The above list of plugins are all documented at: http://gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/userguide_single.html

This custom plugin also sets default confuration for project properties e.g. The Java Compiler version (1.8). This can be overridden in specific project build.gradle file.

Integration Tests default to src/test/integTest to separate concerns.

The default Maven repositories to be used are:

• jcenter (https://bintray.com/bintray/jcenter)
• Maven Local (Your local Maven Repository e.g. .m2/repository)
• Edina Maven Repository (https://geodev.edina.ac.uk/maven-repository)

Some dependencies should be used by all code, that list may be difficult to agree on but the current list is:

• SLF4J 1.7.9
• JUnit 4.11

The Maven Provided Scope is missing from the Java Plugin, so we need to provide it ourselves, this is called compileProvided. e.g.

compileProvided 'junit:junit:4.11'

The War Plugin provides this but isn't available for libraries as it creates a *.war, not a *.jar file. The syntax for War projects is:

providedCompile 'javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:3.0.1'

The War Plugin also provides tasks to package the code into a WAR file.