ApplicationPluginConvention

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Properties
Methods
Script blocks
Property details
API Documentation:ApplicationPluginConvention

Note: This class is deprecated and will be removed in the next major version of Gradle.

The Convention used for configuring the ApplicationPlugin.

Properties

PropertyDescription
applicationDefaultJvmArgs

Array of string arguments to pass to the JVM when running the application

applicationDistribution

The specification of the contents of the distribution.

applicationName

The name of the application.

executableDir

Directory to place executables in

mainClassName

The fully qualified name of the application's main class.

Methods

No methods

Script blocks

No script blocks

Property details

Iterable<String> applicationDefaultJvmArgs

Array of string arguments to pass to the JVM when running the application

Default value:
[]

CopySpec applicationDistribution

The specification of the contents of the distribution.

Use this CopySpec to include extra files/resource in the application distribution. 

plugins {
    id 'application'
}

application {
    applicationDistribution.from("some/dir") {
      include "*.txt"
    }
}

Note that the application plugin pre configures this spec to; include the contents of "src/dist", copy the application start scripts into the "bin" directory, and copy the built jar and its dependencies into the "lib" directory.

Default value:
A copy spec that includes all of the contents of src/dist, copies the start scripts into bin, and copies the built jar and all dependencies into lib

String applicationName

The name of the application.

Default value:
project.name

String executableDir

Directory to place executables in

Default value:
"bin"

String mainClassName

The fully qualified name of the application's main class.

Default value:
null