jakemarsden/PlayingWithGradleDependencyVersions

PlayingWithGradleDependencyVersions

I wrote these projects to play around with declaring Gradle dependency versions in an external properties file.

using-basic-ext

A really simple project which does nothing more than load the properties file into an ExtraPropertiesExtension property and then uses them in the dependencies block.

using-resolution-strategy

This project plays around with the ResolutionStrategy to resolve dependency versions automatically based on the properties file.

using-custom-plugin

Functionally equivalent to using-resolution-strategy, except that all of the common logic is defined in the dependency-management-plugin project.

using-spring-plugin

This project uses the fantastic io.spring.dependency-management plugin under the hood, with some additional logic to dynamically configure the dependencyManagement block based on the properties file.