diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index f6e4f8ba080090e74e99e915c23b4ef4bf072e4e..63e20651e3b6d679f47d2b60b573f4532a5dd720 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -29,10 +29,15 @@ allprojects {
   }
 }
 
+ext {
+    gradleVersion = "2.0"
+}
+
 def isVerificationRequired(project) {
     project.gradle.startParameter.taskNames.contains("uploadArchives")
 }
 
+apply from: file('wrapper.gradle')
 apply from: file('gradle/license.gradle')
 apply from: file('scala.gradle')
 
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index a7634b071cb255e91a4572934e55b8cd8877b3e4..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Binary files a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index d238df326fec6d925ccecdecaac0bcedf8e68672..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#Thu Jul 11 22:18:11 PDT 2013
-distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.0-bin.zip
diff --git a/wrapper.gradle b/wrapper.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bc6350632e2a63159789f8a818fafb1fe03c07cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/wrapper.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+defaultTasks 'downloadWrapper'
+
+task downloadWrapper(type: Wrapper) {
+    description = "Download the gradle wrapper and requisite files. Overwrites existing wrapper files."
+    gradleVersion = project.gradleVersion
+}
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