The Gradle plugin allows you to easily build Vaadin projects with Gradle. It helps with the most tedious tasks when building a Vaadin project like building the widgetset and running development mode. It also helps you to quickly get started by providing tasks for project, component and theme creation.
To get started using the plugin have a look a the Gradle Vaadin Plugin Wiki at https://github.com/johndevs/gradle-vaadin-plugin/wiki