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Documentation on the Squeryl site is a bit outdated, so I decided to write a short howto on the topic.

This is a bit of rare task to exclude something from a sourceset without knowing exactly what to exclude, but it is doable.

Local variables could be trickier than you think in Gradle

Code snippet to set Scala and Java compiler options for joint compilation in Gradle

Squeryl is a great library, but sometimes it lacks certain functionality. Good thing it is written in Scala and I could add missing bits in a heartbit

Squeryl allows user to create database automatically or manually, but does not allow to stop half way and to use Squeryl Schema to assist in manual DB creation. Here is how to fix it

Vaadin is written in Java and its API could be very verbose. Let's see if we can improve that with a bit of Scala

I ran into several issues trying to setup a joint Scala+Vaadin project using Gradle build automation. But I was able to overcome all of them!