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