Hi, I noticed that when the application plugin is activated I can declare the dependency in a more type safe manner.

dependencies {
    compile(group = "org.apache.poi", name = "poi", version = "3.17")
    compile(group = "org.apache.poi", name = "poi-ooxml", version = "3.17")
    compile(kotlin("stdlib-jre8", "${extra["kotlin-ver"]}"))
}

But when this plugin is not activated, I can declare the dependency this way:

dependencies {
    "compile"("org.apache.poi:poi:3.17")
    "compile"("org.apache.poi:poi-ooxml:3.17")
}

Is it possible to declare it as compile instead of “compile”? Thank you. Antonel