Liberty Gradle Plugin 2.0

The Liberty Gradle plugin has many improvements to help you install and manage your Liberty server. These tasks can be used to test your web application on a Liberty server more easily and for packaging your servers. The plugin update includes enhancements to the following tasks:

• installLiberty task
  • Add support to install using Maven repository coordinates.
  • Provide Liberty license upgrade option
• installFeature task
  • Support to install from a local folder
• libertyStart task
  • Add timeout test support
  • Add application start verification
• new installApps task
  • Improved application installation
  • Support multiple war Tasks for install
  • Loose application support to make debugging faster.
• libertyCreate task
  • Server configuration creation
  • Copy server.xml
  • Copy server.env, bootstrap.properties, jvm.options files
  • Create bootstrap.properties and jvm.options from inline configuration
  • Copy a folder of configuration
• libertyRun task fixes
• new compileJSP task
• Documentation improvements
• Enhancements to the Liberty Gradle lifecycle with task dependencies

Liberty Gradle Plugin 1.0.1

The 1.0.1 maintenance release of Liberty Gradle Plugin updates the default Liberty version selected when installing from the Liberty repository using the install-liberty task. See the commit log for the full set of changes.

The Liberty Gradle Plugin 1.0.1 release is available in the Maven central repository.

Liberty Gradle Plugin 1.0

This is a first release of the Liberty Gradle Plugin. The plugin provides a set of tasks for configuring and managing WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile servers. For example, it provides tasks such:

• installLiberty for installing Liberty runtime.
• libertyStart/libertyStop for starting and stopping Liberty server.
• deploy/undeploy for deploying and undeploying applications.
• installFeature/uninstallFeature for installing and uninstalling Liberty features.

See the documentation for a complete list of supported tasks and other details. The Liberty Gradle Plugin 1.0 release is available in the Maven central repository.