Dependency resolution
We have seen the standard way of defining dependency and repository, which can help you to quick start with the concepts. It's time for a deep dive, and understand how to customize the standard configuration, which can suit your specific requirements.
Transitive dependency
Suppose your application depends on commons-httpclient-3.1.jar, which is a first-level dependency. However, this JAR again depends on the following other JARs, commons-codec-1.2.jar and commons-logging-1.0.4.jar.And if we try to find more details, commons-logging jar again depends on some other JARs.
Here, commons-httpclient-3.1 is a first-level dependency; the two previously mentioned JARs are second-level dependencies, and so on. However, with Gradle, you ...
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