[OFBIZ-7534] Migrate OFBiz from Apache Ant to Gradle build system

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 16.11.01
• Fix Version/s: 16.11.01
• Component/s: ALL COMPONENTS
• Labels: ant build-tools gradle
• Assignee: Taher Alkhateeb
• Reporter: Taher Alkhateeb
• Created: 21/Jun/16 19:44
• Updated: 21/Jan/18 12:12
• Resolved: 01/Sep/16 07:52

Description

This is a major refactoring task referring to the email thread in which the community voted for the switch after a proposal from the PMC

The purpose of this JIRA is to achieve the following objectives

• Fully implement a working compiling system in Gradle that passes all tests
• Remove all ant and maven build scripts from the system
• update the documentation of the system to reflect these changes

Issue Links

• relates to: OFBIZ-6271 build management with maven
• links to: A framacalc to store the references for each jar
• links to: jcenter the global jar repo for notably Gradle
• mentioned in: Page Loading...
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Sub-Tasks

• Update documentation with respect to implementation of gradle as a replacement of ant: Closed
• Use Pandoc to integrate our README.MD from repo to Confluence: Closed
• Have a gradle build file for the content component: Closed
• Have a gradle build file for the product component: Closed
• Have a gradle build file for the base component: Closed
• Have a gradle build file for the catalina component: Closed
• iterateOverActiveComponents exists twice: Closed
• Eclipse IDE gets messed up: Closed
• Move files in gradle folder to a location within base component of the framework stack: Closed
• remove gradle-wrapper external library: Closed
• Have a gradle build file for the entity component: Closed
• use correct provider for xpp3:1.1.4c_7 library: Closed
• createComponent tasks does not ask for parameters (should we?): Closed
• createTenant tasks does not ask for parameters: Closed
• Fix or remove scripts in tools folder: Closed
• Remove warnings regarding missing component lib folders: Closed
• Clean the tools directory: Closed
• Check if we should fix or remove the POS (hence WebPos?): Closed
• OFBiz secured background process does not work on Windows: Closed
• Create a (short term) Gradle "cleanAnt" task to remove old build dirs: Closed
• ./gradle create component duplicates OFBTOOLS permission: Closed
• Load the OWASP dependency checker Gradle plugin efficiently: Closed
• Shortlist the needed resources to start OFBiz in the sourcesets block in Gradle: Closed
• Investigate how we could use Gradle GUI to provide users a friendly UX when using plugins: Closed
• Running or debugging OFBiz inside Eclipse no longer works: Closed