I started a Java Web App back in NB 8.2 which by default used Ant.
Once I started using GitLab CI for the project, I created a build.gradle
file, which just fires off the ant build:
ant.importBuild('build.xml') { antTargetName ->
'a-' + antTargetName
}
and then defines my dependencies, war file info, etc.
Now that I'm using NB11, NB detects the build.gradle file and assumes
this is a Gradle project. I'm fine with that, but obviously there are
things I'm going to need to do to the structure of my
project/build.gradle file to actually work with the project.
Specifically, my "Web Pages" directory no longer appears in the Project
view. I presume this is because I need to adhere to Gradle's assumed
location of the web or webapp directory or tell Gradle what that path is
in my build.gradle, but I have been unable to figure out the settings to
do this.
I've tried to use the info in Gradle docs, but I haven't been successful:
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/war_plugin.html
I did notice that if you were to create a new project, "Java with
Gradle" does not include "Web Application" as a project like "Java with
Maven" and "Java with Ant -> Java Web" do.
I'm assuming that in NetBeans, I should be able to manually convert an
existing Web App project to a Gradle Web App project?
If so, do I need to convert all the Ant stuff to Gradle? Or, at least in
the short run is there a way to tell NB to ignore the existence of
build.gradle and just let me open it up as an Ant Java Web App?
I have been Googling around and I haven't found anything obvious yet. If
anyone knows of existing resources for figuring this out, please let me
know.
Thanks!
-Mike
