We have seen that Java 8 is the minimum requirement for Spring Boot 2.0, both with Maven and Gradle. However, if you want to use Gradle, then first install Gradle 4 or above in your machine from www.gradle.org/.
Now, see the following Gradle Spring Boot dependencies file with org.springframework.boot groupId. Here's what the build.gradle file should look like:
buildscript { repositories { jcenter() maven { url 'http://repo.spring.io/snapshot' } maven { url 'http://repo.spring.io/milestone' } } dependencies { classpath 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:2.0.0.M7' } } apply plugin: 'java' apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot' apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management' jar { baseName ...
