Does anyone have experience with setting up gretty...

# multiplatform

[Lawik]

Does anyone have experience with setting up gretty in a multiplatform project? (or the war plugin)

[thana]

not directly, but with the spring boot plugin. We ended up with another module targeting JVM only and we built our executable jar form that other module

[Lawik]

I'd prefer not to use spring for this project. Were you still able to access common code from your JVM module using this setup?

[thana]

the other module only existis to configure the aretefact. it does not contain any other code or logic

[thana]

so this is not a "to spring or not to spring" question 😉
What i want to say is: at least we were not able to make use of spring boot to configure and create the jvm artifact (a jar in out case, a war in your case) when using an MPP.
But that was made wasy as soon as we introduced a new gradle module which's only use was to configure this artefact. no furhter code required

[Lawik]

I think I understand what you're trying to say, I'm trying it out right now(never used multiple modules within Gradle before). Do I have to define the dependencies to be included in the war twice, once in the main build.gradle and once in the new module's build.gradle?

[thana]

no, the new module only contains a dependency on the actual module as well as the tools you need to creater your artifact

[thana]

there is not that mich of a difference between a gradle multi-module project and e.g. a maven multi-module project

[Lawik]

How do I add the dependency on the actual module?

[Lawik]

I added the submodule to my settings.gradle.

[thana]

implementation project(":otherModule")

[thana]

but better read here: https://guides.gradle.org/creating-multi-project-builds/ 🙂

[thana]

no that one makes more sense: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/multi_project_builds.html

[Lawik]

For some reason my js jar file is added into the war instead of the jvm jar file.

[thana]

at thsi point, i can't help 😄

[Lawik]

Yeah, I think I will attempt writing a task that will create a war file manually using the CLI instead of the plugin as this should give me more control. Thanks a lot for your help though!