Gradle can be used to create a Java project; in our case, we can create a common JAR project to explain a simple configuration to use Maven repositories within Gradle.

First, we must download the current version of Gradle; we can download the latest version 2.0. Once we get a ZIP file, we unzip it and put it into a folder as follows:

C:gadle-2.0

Add GRADLE_HOME/bin to your PATH environmental variable to launch the Gradle command from every location. Obviously, you must have an installation of Java on your machine if you want to build a Java project.

All Gradle projects contain a file called build.gradle that contains the instructions to build and assemble projects through the command line.