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Steps to install Gradle Wrapper without Gradle in the system.

Spring has a nice feature to automatically select version of the dependency. That is how it can be used separately.

If you want to determine what is the parent git branch of the current one

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

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!

Gradle Cookbook has a one liner to produce a fat jar. But what you want to make it just a bit more slim?