Patch attached to add support for building via Gradle. This could be extended to handle publishing to a Maven repository if there was any interest in avoiding Maven at all costs :)

gradle eclipse - setup Eclipse project config gradle idea - setup IntelliJ IDEA project config gradle jar - compile, test and put jar in build/libs gradle perfTest - compile and run the perf tests gradle task - list all other available build tasks

Note that the auto-bootstrapping feature of gradle is configured in this patch but the wrapper is not included as it involves a small binary .jar. To generate the wrapper run and commit the results of:

gradle wrapper

A developer can then build the app or configure it for their IDE without having Gradle (or Ant) installed by running:

./gradlew <task>

This is an enhancement, not a defect.

Yes, sorry about that but as a non-admin of the project all new issues are created as defects as far as I can tell.

Please report this in a more appropriate place.