Introduction

This is a suite of gradle plugins which apply a good "standard" convention to a Java project, and is intended to replace the majority of the "boring" bits of build.gradle. It integrates (at least) the following:

findbugs
animalsniffer (be.insaneprogramming.gradle.animalsniffer)
license checking and download (license)
version update checking (com.github.ben-manes.versions)
github and github-pages (org.ajoberstar.github-pages)
maven (com.bmuschko.nexus)
nexus (com.bmuschko.nexus)
gradle plugin metadata generation
bintray (com.jfrog.bintray)

It is primarily intended to ease the maintenance of my own numerous projects, but other people or organizations may find it useful.

Cheat Sheet

If you are building a project which uses gradle-stdproject-plugin, then you should read the CHEATSHEET.

Applying to Your Own Projects

Depend on the plugin like this:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'org.anarres.gradle:gradle-stdproject-plugin:1.0.4'
    }
}

Then for a multi-module project:

apply plugin: 'org.anarres.stdproject'
stdproject {
	// These properties are applied globally.
	javadocLink "http://netty.io/4.0/api/"
	javadocGroup "Common Javadoc Group", "org.anarres.project.common*",
	javadocGroup "Other Javadoc Group", "org.anarres.project.other*",
	// ...
}
subprojects { 
    apply plugin: 'org.anarres.stdmodule'
	group = 'org.myorg.plugin'
	stdmodule {
		description "This is the description of my project."
		author id: 'me', name: 'My Name', email: 'my@email.com'
		author id: 'you', name: 'Your Name', email: 'you@email.com'
		license 'Apache-2.0'
		license {
			name 'My Custom License'
			url 'http://www.myorg.org/license.html'
		}
		// ...
	}
}

You can also put a stdmodule {} block within any project(...) {} block.

For a single-module project, remove the subprojects {} wrapper:

apply plugin: 'org.anarres.stdproject'
stdproject {
	// ...
}
apply plugin: 'org.anarres.stdmodule'
stdmodule {
	// ...
}

For a subproject which builds a gradle plugin, also apply:

project(':myproject-gradle') {
	apply plugin: 'org.anarres.stdplugin'
	stdplugin {
		implementation "org.myorg.myplugin", "org.myorg.myplugin.MyPlugin"
		tags "my", "plugin", "is", "cool"
	}
}

eljonny/gradle-stdproject-plugin

Introduction

Cheat Sheet

Applying to Your Own Projects