Enterprise Kotlin Handbook

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Sample gradle project ​

Created from command line to showcase how a simple gradle project looks like.

bash
mkdir project-008-sample-gradle
cd project-008-sample-gradle
echo "no"| gradle init \
  --type kotlin-application \
  --dsl kotlin \
  --test-framework kotlintest \
  --package project008 \
  --project-name project-008-sample-gradle \
  --no-split-project  \
  --java-version 17

Requirements ​

  • java 17
  • gradle 8.6

It does not care about your kotlin compiler available at command line. Kotlin is provisioned as a dependency and plugin for now on.

How to build ​

bash
gradle build 
# or `gradle app:build` # or even `cd app ; gradle build`

How to run ​

bash
gradle app:run

How to test ​

bash
gradle test

Noteworthy ​

  • The project can be simpler, much similar to the maven structure
  • Gradle originally used groovy as dsl language for the build.gradle file. It supports kotlin in build.gradle.kts file nowadays.
  • Gradle's application plugin creates distributions instead of one huge executable jar file, like maven assembly plugin does. Both are valid ways to distribute software in the jvm ecosystem.