Creating a sample project

Before we can see the support for Gradle in the several continuous integration servers, we must have a sample project. We are going to create a very simple Java project with a test class and add it to a Git repository, in this section.

We already created a Java project earlier. We are going to re-use the code in this chapter for our sample project. We want to have a test in our project, so that we can see how the continuous integration tools can handle test results. Finally, we want to have more than one artifact for our project; we want to have a JAR file with the compiled classes, source code, and Javadoc generated documentation.

We first create a build.gradle file in a directory, with the following contents:

// We create a Java project so we need the Java plugin
apply plugin: 'java'

// Set base name for archives.
archivesBaseName = 'gradle-sample'

// Version of the project.
version = '1.0'

// Definine Maven central repository for downloading
// dependencies....