Building an uberjar with Gradle

I replaced the task uberjar(.. with the following:

jar {
    from(configurations.compile.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) }) {
        exclude "META-INF/*.SF"
        exclude "META-INF/*.DSA"
        exclude "META-INF/*.RSA"
    }

    manifest {
        attributes 'Implementation-Title': 'Foobar',
                'Implementation-Version': version,
                'Built-By': System.getProperty('user.name'),
                'Built-Date': new Date(),
                'Built-JDK': System.getProperty('java.version'),
                'Main-Class': mainClassName
    }
}

The exclusions are needed because in their absence you will hit this issue.

Have you tried the fatjar example in the gradle cookbook?

What you're looking for is the shadow plugin for gradle

Simply add this to your java module's build.gradle.

mainClassName = "my.main.Class"

jar {
  manifest { 
    attributes "Main-Class": "$mainClassName"
  }  

  from {
    configurations.compile.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) }
  }
}

This will result in [module_name]/build/libs/[module_name].jar file.

I found this project very useful. Using it as a reference, my Gradle uberjar task would be

task uberjar(type: Jar, dependsOn: [':compileJava', ':processResources']) {
    from files(sourceSets.main.output.classesDir)
    from configurations.runtime.asFileTree.files.collect { zipTree(it) }

    manifest {
        attributes 'Main-Class': 'SomeClass'
    }
}