Gradle Dependency Management

Optional Ant task dependencies

We can reuse the existing Ant tasks in Gradle. The default tasks from Ant can be invoked from within our build scripts. However, if we want to use an optional Ant task, we must define a dependency for the classes needed by the optional Ant task. We create a new dependency configuration, and then we add a dependency to this new configuration. We can reference this configuration when setting the classpath for the optional Ant task.

Let's add the optional Ant task SCP for the secure copying of files to/from a remote server. We create the sshAntTask configuration to add dependencies for the optional Ant task. We can choose any name for the configuration. To define the optional task, we use the taskdef method from the ...