Gradle Dependency Management

Chapter 7. Publishing to an Ivy Repository

You learned in a previous chapter how we can publish our project artifacts to a Maven repository. In this chapter, we are going to use an Ivy repository to which we can publish.

Just as with publishing to a Maven repository, we are going to use the new and incubating publishing feature in Gradle to publish to an Ivy repository.

Defining publications

We must add the ivy-publish plugin to our project to be able to publish our artifacts to an Ivy repository. The plugin allows us to use the Ivy format to describe our artifacts that need to be published.

The ivy-publish plugin is based on the general publishing plugin. The publishing plugin adds a new publishing extension to our project. We can use a publications ...