diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 152a89d..0974616 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,64 +9,41 @@
 
 ## Overview
 
-This is a collection of Gradle subprojects that showcase the excellent HTTP mock server _WireMock_ 
-<http://wiremock.org/docs/>.
-
-There are two subprojects:
-
-* [`programmatic/`](#programmatic)
-* [`standalone/`](#standalone)
+**NOTE**: This project was developed on macOS. It is designed for my own personal use.
 
+This is a collection of example projects that showcase the excellent HTTP mock server _WireMock_ 
+<http://wiremock.org/docs/>.
 
-## `programmatic/`
 
-The `programmatic/` subproject showcases how to run the WireMock server programmatically via Java code and with 
-various configurations. Use it like a recipe book for when you write your own WireMock code! 
+## Standalone subprojects
 
+This repository illustrates different concepts, patterns and examples via standalone subprojects. Each sub-project is
+completely independent of the others and do not depend on the root project. This _standalone sub-project constraint_
+forces the subprojects to be complete and maximizes the reader's chances of successfully running, understanding, and
+re-using the code.
 
-### Instructions
+The subprojects include:
 
-Follow these instructions to run the example program.
 
-1. Use Java 17
-2. Build and run the program:
-   * ```shell
-     ./gradlew programmatic:run
-     ```
-3. Make requests to the stubbed endpoints:
-   * ```shell
-     curl --request GET --url http://localhost:8070/message
-     ```
-   * ```shell
-     curl --request GET --url http://localhost:8070/random-integer
-     ```
-4. Observe the Jetty server statistics by going to <http://localhost:8070/stats/> in your browser
-   * Statistics include things like the number of responses with 200/300/400/500 status codes, the number of connections,
-     and the amount of memory used by the underlying Jetty server.
+### `programmatic/`
 
+Run a WireMock server programmatically via Java code and with various configurations.
 
-## `standalone/`
+See the README in [programmatic/](programmatic/).
 
-The `standalone/` subproject showcases how to run WireMock as a standalone process by downloading the
-executable jar and running it. See the official docs at <http://wiremock.org/docs/running-standalone/>.
 
-### Instructions
+### `standalone/`
 
-Follow these instructions to run the standalone WireMock server.
+Run WireMock as a standalone process by downloading the executable jar and running it.
 
-1. Use Java 17
-2. Run the standalone server
-    * ```shell
-      ./gradlew standalone:run
-      ```
-3. When you're done, stop the program with `Ctrl + C`
+See the README in [standalone/](standalone/).
 
 
 ## Wish List
 
 General clean-ups, changes and things I wish to implement for this project:
 
-* [ ] Make the subprojects completely standalone and adhere to the convention I have in my other playground repos.
+* [x] DONE Make the subprojects completely standalone and adhere to the convention I have in my other playground repos.
 * [x] DONE Add a stub with a custom handler that uses custom Java code to respond to the request.
 * [ ] SKIP (WireMock has its own Docker image now; great!) Create a WireMock-in-Docker example
 * [x] DONE create a subproject that declares dependency constraint versions and which will be used as a `platform(...)`
@@ -79,6 +56,8 @@ General clean-ups, changes and things I wish to implement for this project:
 * [ ] Do something with proxying. Anything I care to have a reference for? Any nice new proxy features in WireMock 3.0?
 * [ ] Add some stubs to the standalone project
 * [ ] Remove the JFR stuff (although interesting; that kind of stuff belongs in other playground repos)
+* [ ] Consider removing the `standalone` subproject. I'm not sure if I would use this in practice anymore since there is
+  now an official WireMock Docker image.
 
 
 ## Notes
diff --git a/build.gradle.kts b/build.gradle.kts
deleted file mode 100644
index d0a0692..0000000
--- a/build.gradle.kts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-val dependencyConstraints = project(":dependency-constraints")
-configure(allprojects.minus(dependencyConstraints)) {
-    apply(plugin = "java")
-    apply(plugin = "application")
-
-    repositories {
-        mavenCentral()
-    }
-
-    dependencies {
-        "implementation"(platform(dependencyConstraints))
-    }
-}
diff --git a/dependency-constraints/build.gradle.kts b/dependency-constraints/build.gradle.kts
deleted file mode 100644
index c1d7cf9..0000000
--- a/dependency-constraints/build.gradle.kts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-plugins {
-    /*
-     * Using the Gradle "platform" feature to declare dependency version constraints that will be used by the other subprojects
-     * so that we only ever have to declare version information in one place instead of across all subprojects. See the
-     * Gradle docs about "platform": https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/platforms.html
-     */
-    `java-platform`
-}
-
-val slf4jVersion = "1.7.36" // releases: http://www.slf4j.org/news.html
-val wireMockVersion = "2.35.1" // releases: https://github.com/tomakehurst/wiremock/tags
-
-dependencies {
-    constraints {
-        api("org.slf4j:slf4j-api:$slf4jVersion")
-        api("org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:$slf4jVersion")
-        api("com.github.tomakehurst:wiremock-jre8:$wireMockVersion")
-        api("com.github.tomakehurst:wiremock-jre8-standalone:$wireMockVersion")
-    }
-}
diff --git a/programmatic/README.md b/programmatic/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a4fe91e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/programmatic/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# programmatic
+
+Run a WireMock server programmatically via Java code and with various configurations.
+
+
+## Overview
+
+At it's core, WireMock is a Java library. It's distributed as a `.jar` and so you can depend on the library and code to
+the Java APIs directly. Alternatively, you might consider running WireMock in a Docker container, but in any case you
+should know your options.
+
+
+## Instructions
+
+Follow these instructions to run the example program.
+
+1. Use Java 17
+2. Build and run the program:
+    * ```shell
+      ./gradlew run
+      ```
+3. Make requests to the stubbed endpoints:
+    * ```shell
+      curl --request GET --url http://localhost:8070/message
+      ```
+    * ```shell
+      curl --request GET --url http://localhost:8070/random-integer
+      ```
+4. Observe the Jetty server statistics by going to <http://localhost:8070/stats/> in your browser
+    * Statistics include things like the number of responses with 200/300/400/500 status codes, the number of connections,
+      and the amount of memory used by the underlying Jetty server.
diff --git a/programmatic/build.gradle.kts b/programmatic/build.gradle.kts
index c05a8c8..92805a1 100644
--- a/programmatic/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/programmatic/build.gradle.kts
@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
+plugins {
+    java
+    application
+}
+
+repositories {
+    mavenCentral()
+}
+
 dependencies {
-    implementation(group = "com.github.tomakehurst", name = "wiremock-jre8")
-    implementation(group = "org.slf4j", name = "slf4j-api")
-    implementation(group = "org.slf4j", name = "slf4j-simple")
+    implementation(libs.wire.mock)
+    implementation(libs.slf4j.api)
+    implementation(libs.slf4j.simple)
 }
 
 application {
diff --git a/programmatic/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/programmatic/gradle/libs.versions.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..57fe396
--- /dev/null
+++ b/programmatic/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[versions]
+slf4j = "1.7.36" # SLF4J releases: http://www.slf4j.org/news.html
+wire-mock = "2.35.1" # WireMock releases: https://github.com/tomakehurst/wiremock/tags
+
+[libraries]
+wire-mock = { module = "com.github.tomakehurst:wiremock-jre8", version.ref = "wire-mock" }
+slf4j-api = { module = "org.slf4j:slf4j-api", version.ref = "slf4j" }
+slf4j-simple = { module = "org.slf4j:slf4j-simple", version.ref = "slf4j" }
diff --git a/programmatic/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/programmatic/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d64cd49
Binary files /dev/null and b/programmatic/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/programmatic/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/programmatic/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1af9e09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/programmatic/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+distributionPath=wrapper/dists
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.5-bin.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
+zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/programmatic/gradlew b/programmatic/gradlew
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1aa94a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/programmatic/gradlew
@@ -0,0 +1,249 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+#
+# Copyright © 2015-2021 the original authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+##############################################################################
+#
+#   Gradle start up script for POSIX generated by Gradle.
+#
+#   Important for running:
+#
+#   (1) You need a POSIX-compliant shell to run this script. If your /bin/sh is
+#       noncompliant, but you have some other compliant shell such as ksh or
+#       bash, then to run this script, type that shell name before the whole
+#       command line, like:
+#
+#           ksh Gradle
+#
+#       Busybox and similar reduced shells will NOT work, because this script
+#       requires all of these POSIX shell features:
+#         * functions;
+#         * expansions «$var», «${var}», «${var:-default}», «${var+SET}»,
+#           «${var#prefix}», «${var%suffix}», and «$( cmd )»;
+#         * compound commands having a testable exit status, especially «case»;
+#         * various built-in commands including «command», «set», and «ulimit».
+#
+#   Important for patching:
+#
+#   (2) This script targets any POSIX shell, so it avoids extensions provided
+#       by Bash, Ksh, etc; in particular arrays are avoided.
+#
+#       The "traditional" practice of packing multiple parameters into a
+#       space-separated string is a well documented source of bugs and security
+#       problems, so this is (mostly) avoided, by progressively accumulating
+#       options in "$@", and eventually passing that to Java.
+#
+#       Where the inherited environment variables (DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS,
+#       and GRADLE_OPTS) rely on word-splitting, this is performed explicitly;
+#       see the in-line comments for details.
+#
+#       There are tweaks for specific operating systems such as AIX, CygWin,
+#       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
+#
+#   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
+#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
+#       within the Gradle project.
+#
+#       You can find Gradle at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/.
+#
+##############################################################################
+
+# Attempt to set APP_HOME
+
+# Resolve links: $0 may be a link
+app_path=$0
+
+# Need this for daisy-chained symlinks.
+while
+    APP_HOME=${app_path%"${app_path##*/}"}  # leaves a trailing /; empty if no leading path
+    [ -h "$app_path" ]
+do
+    ls=$( ls -ld "$app_path" )
+    link=${ls#*' -> '}
+    case $link in             #(
+      /*)   app_path=$link ;; #(
+      *)    app_path=$APP_HOME$link ;;
+    esac
+done
+
+# This is normally unused
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
+APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
+# Discard cd standard output in case $CDPATH is set (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25036)
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && pwd -P ) || exit
+
+# Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
+MAX_FD=maximum
+
+warn () {
+    echo "$*"
+} >&2
+
+die () {
+    echo
+    echo "$*"
+    echo
+    exit 1
+} >&2
+
+# OS specific support (must be 'true' or 'false').
+cygwin=false
+msys=false
+darwin=false
+nonstop=false
+case "$( uname )" in                #(
+  CYGWIN* )         cygwin=true  ;; #(
+  Darwin* )         darwin=true  ;; #(
+  MSYS* | MINGW* )  msys=true    ;; #(
+  NONSTOP* )        nonstop=true ;;
+esac
+
+CLASSPATH=$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
+
+
+# Determine the Java command to use to start the JVM.
+if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then
+    if [ -x "$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java" ] ; then
+        # IBM's JDK on AIX uses strange locations for the executables
+        JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java
+    else
+        JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java
+    fi
+    if [ ! -x "$JAVACMD" ] ; then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: $JAVA_HOME
+
+Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+location of your Java installation."
+    fi
+else
+    JAVACMD=java
+    if ! command -v java >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+
+Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+location of your Java installation."
+    fi
+fi
+
+# Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
+if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
+    case $MAX_FD in #(
+      max*)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
+        MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
+            warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
+    esac
+    case $MAX_FD in  #(
+      '' | soft) :;; #(
+      *)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
+        ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
+            warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
+    esac
+fi
+
+# Collect all arguments for the java command, stacking in reverse order:
+#   * args from the command line
+#   * the main class name
+#   * -classpath
+#   * -D...appname settings
+#   * --module-path (only if needed)
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and GRADLE_OPTS environment variables.
+
+# For Cygwin or MSYS, switch paths to Windows format before running java
+if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
+    APP_HOME=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$APP_HOME" )
+    CLASSPATH=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$CLASSPATH" )
+
+    JAVACMD=$( cygpath --unix "$JAVACMD" )
+
+    # Now convert the arguments - kludge to limit ourselves to /bin/sh
+    for arg do
+        if
+            case $arg in                                #(
+              -*)   false ;;                            # don't mess with options #(
+              /?*)  t=${arg#/} t=/${t%%/*}              # looks like a POSIX filepath
+                    [ -e "$t" ] ;;                      #(
+              *)    false ;;
+            esac
+        then
+            arg=$( cygpath --path --ignore --mixed "$arg" )
+        fi
+        # Roll the args list around exactly as many times as the number of
+        # args, so each arg winds up back in the position where it started, but
+        # possibly modified.
+        #
+        # NB: a `for` loop captures its iteration list before it begins, so
+        # changing the positional parameters here affects neither the number of
+        # iterations, nor the values presented in `arg`.
+        shift                   # remove old arg
+        set -- "$@" "$arg"      # push replacement arg
+    done
+fi
+
+
+# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
+DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
+
+# Collect all arguments for the java command:
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
+#     and any embedded shellness will be escaped.
+#   * For example: A user cannot expect ${Hostname} to be expanded, as it is an environment variable and will be
+#     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
+
+set -- \
+        "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \
+        -classpath "$CLASSPATH" \
+        org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain \
+        "$@"
+
+# Stop when "xargs" is not available.
+if ! command -v xargs >/dev/null 2>&1
+then
+    die "xargs is not available"
+fi
+
+# Use "xargs" to parse quoted args.
+#
+# With -n1 it outputs one arg per line, with the quotes and backslashes removed.
+#
+# In Bash we could simply go:
+#
+#   readarray ARGS < <( xargs -n1 <<<"$var" ) &&
+#   set -- "${ARGS[@]}" "$@"
+#
+# but POSIX shell has neither arrays nor command substitution, so instead we
+# post-process each arg (as a line of input to sed) to backslash-escape any
+# character that might be a shell metacharacter, then use eval to reverse
+# that process (while maintaining the separation between arguments), and wrap
+# the whole thing up as a single "set" statement.
+#
+# This will of course break if any of these variables contains a newline or
+# an unmatched quote.
+#
+
+eval "set -- $(
+        printf '%s\n' "$DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS $JAVA_OPTS $GRADLE_OPTS" |
+        xargs -n1 |
+        sed ' s~[^-[:alnum:]+,./:=@_]~\\&~g; ' |
+        tr '\n' ' '
+    )" '"$@"'
+
+exec "$JAVACMD" "$@"
diff --git a/programmatic/gradlew.bat b/programmatic/gradlew.bat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..93e3f59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/programmatic/gradlew.bat
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+@rem
+@rem Copyright 2015 the original author or authors.
+@rem
+@rem Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+@rem you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+@rem You may obtain a copy of the License at
+@rem
+@rem      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+@rem
+@rem Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+@rem distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+@rem WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+@rem See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+@rem limitations under the License.
+@rem
+
+@if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
+@rem ##########################################################################
+@rem
+@rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
+@rem
+@rem ##########################################################################
+
+@rem Set local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
+if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
+
+set DIRNAME=%~dp0
+if "%DIRNAME%"=="" set DIRNAME=.
+@rem This is normally unused
+set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
+set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%
+
+@rem Resolve any "." and ".." in APP_HOME to make it shorter.
+for %%i in ("%APP_HOME%") do set APP_HOME=%%~fi
+
+@rem Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
+set DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS="-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"
+
+@rem Find java.exe
+if defined JAVA_HOME goto findJavaFromJavaHome
+
+set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
+%JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
+if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto execute
+
+echo.
+echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+echo.
+echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+echo location of your Java installation.
+
+goto fail
+
+:findJavaFromJavaHome
+set JAVA_HOME=%JAVA_HOME:"=%
+set JAVA_EXE=%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java.exe
+
+if exist "%JAVA_EXE%" goto execute
+
+echo.
+echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME%
+echo.
+echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+echo location of your Java installation.
+
+goto fail
+
+:execute
+@rem Setup the command line
+
+set CLASSPATH=%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar
+
+
+@rem Execute Gradle
+"%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain %*
+
+:end
+@rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
+if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto mainEnd
+
+:fail
+rem Set variable GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE if you need the _script_ return code instead of
+rem the _cmd.exe /c_ return code!
+set EXIT_CODE=%ERRORLEVEL%
+if %EXIT_CODE% equ 0 set EXIT_CODE=1
+if not ""=="%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit %EXIT_CODE%
+exit /b %EXIT_CODE%
+
+:mainEnd
+if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" endlocal
+
+:omega
diff --git a/programmatic/settings.gradle.kts b/programmatic/settings.gradle.kts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63548b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/programmatic/settings.gradle.kts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+rootProject.name = "programmatic"
diff --git a/settings.gradle.kts b/settings.gradle.kts
index de00e56..bd7ea76 100644
--- a/settings.gradle.kts
+++ b/settings.gradle.kts
@@ -1,14 +1,27 @@
-/*
- * This file was generated by the Gradle 'init' task.
- *
- * The settings file is used to specify which projects to include in your build.
- *
- * Detailed information about configuring a multi-project build in Gradle can be found
- * in the user manual at https://docs.gradle.org/6.3-rc-3/userguide/multi_project_builds.html
- */
-
 rootProject.name = "wiremock-playground"
 
-include("dependency-constraints",
-        "programmatic",
-        "standalone")
+// What is the point of defining a Gradle project in the root of this repository? After all, each of the subprojects
+// are independently runnable... What does it mean to "run the root project"?
+//
+// Answer:
+//
+// Defining a Gradle project in the root of the repository is basically to appease Intellij. Intellij has a
+// a desire to impose structure on any project you open. This is a good feature of Intellij because you can `git clone`
+// a project, open it in Intellij, and immediately have code completion and intelligent project navigation. Intellij can
+// do this for projects that use a "well-known project structure" like a Maven project with a 'pom.xml' file in the root
+// directory or a Gradle project with a 'settings.gradle' or 'settings.gradle.kts' file in the root directory.
+//
+// Unfortunately, Intellij does not automatically recognize "orphaned" projects. In other words, if you opened this
+// project in Intellij and there was no 'settings.gradle.kts' file in the root directory then Intellij would just give
+// up. It would not know to go into each of the subproject directories and recognize them as standalone Gradle
+// projects. You would not get the out-of-the-box code completion and project navigation that you are used to with
+// Intellij. Instead, you would have to go to the Intellij "Project Structure" settings and add the subprojects
+// one-by-one as "Intellij Modules". This is a poor user experience.
+//
+// To avoid this poor user experience, we can define a root Gradle project and include each of the subprojects via
+// Gradle "included builds". See https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/composite_builds.html. Now, when someone
+// clones this repo and opens it in Intellij, all the subprojects are automatically identified by Intellij and indexed.
+// You get code completion and project navigation out-of-the-box. Pretty slick!
+
+includeBuild("programmatic")
+includeBuild("standalone")
diff --git a/standalone/README.md b/standalone/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b2bd2be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/standalone/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# standalone
+
+Run WireMock as a standalone process by downloading the executable jar and running it.
+
+
+## Instructions
+
+Follow these instructions to run the standalone WireMock server.
+
+1. Use Java 17
+2. Run the standalone server
+    * ```shell
+      ./gradlew run
+      ```
+3. When you're done, stop the program with `Ctrl + C`
+
+
+## Reference
+
+* See the official docs at <http://wiremock.org/docs/running-standalone/>.
diff --git a/standalone/build.gradle.kts b/standalone/build.gradle.kts
index feab9f7..5a7c843 100644
--- a/standalone/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/standalone/build.gradle.kts
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
+plugins {
+    application
+}
+
+repositories {
+    mavenCentral()
+}
+
 dependencies {
-    implementation(group = "com.github.tomakehurst", name = "wiremock-jre8-standalone")
+    implementation(libs.wire.mock.standalone)
 }
 
 application {
diff --git a/standalone/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/standalone/gradle/libs.versions.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c15eed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/standalone/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[versions]
+wire-mock = "2.35.1" # WireMock releases: https://github.com/tomakehurst/wiremock/tags
+
+[libraries]
+wire-mock-standalone = { module = "com.github.tomakehurst:wiremock-jre8-standalone", version.ref = "wire-mock" }
diff --git a/standalone/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/standalone/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d64cd49
Binary files /dev/null and b/standalone/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/standalone/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/standalone/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1af9e09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/standalone/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+distributionPath=wrapper/dists
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.5-bin.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
+zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/standalone/gradlew b/standalone/gradlew
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1aa94a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/standalone/gradlew
@@ -0,0 +1,249 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+#
+# Copyright © 2015-2021 the original authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+##############################################################################
+#
+#   Gradle start up script for POSIX generated by Gradle.
+#
+#   Important for running:
+#
+#   (1) You need a POSIX-compliant shell to run this script. If your /bin/sh is
+#       noncompliant, but you have some other compliant shell such as ksh or
+#       bash, then to run this script, type that shell name before the whole
+#       command line, like:
+#
+#           ksh Gradle
+#
+#       Busybox and similar reduced shells will NOT work, because this script
+#       requires all of these POSIX shell features:
+#         * functions;
+#         * expansions «$var», «${var}», «${var:-default}», «${var+SET}»,
+#           «${var#prefix}», «${var%suffix}», and «$( cmd )»;
+#         * compound commands having a testable exit status, especially «case»;
+#         * various built-in commands including «command», «set», and «ulimit».
+#
+#   Important for patching:
+#
+#   (2) This script targets any POSIX shell, so it avoids extensions provided
+#       by Bash, Ksh, etc; in particular arrays are avoided.
+#
+#       The "traditional" practice of packing multiple parameters into a
+#       space-separated string is a well documented source of bugs and security
+#       problems, so this is (mostly) avoided, by progressively accumulating
+#       options in "$@", and eventually passing that to Java.
+#
+#       Where the inherited environment variables (DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS,
+#       and GRADLE_OPTS) rely on word-splitting, this is performed explicitly;
+#       see the in-line comments for details.
+#
+#       There are tweaks for specific operating systems such as AIX, CygWin,
+#       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
+#
+#   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
+#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
+#       within the Gradle project.
+#
+#       You can find Gradle at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/.
+#
+##############################################################################
+
+# Attempt to set APP_HOME
+
+# Resolve links: $0 may be a link
+app_path=$0
+
+# Need this for daisy-chained symlinks.
+while
+    APP_HOME=${app_path%"${app_path##*/}"}  # leaves a trailing /; empty if no leading path
+    [ -h "$app_path" ]
+do
+    ls=$( ls -ld "$app_path" )
+    link=${ls#*' -> '}
+    case $link in             #(
+      /*)   app_path=$link ;; #(
+      *)    app_path=$APP_HOME$link ;;
+    esac
+done
+
+# This is normally unused
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
+APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
+# Discard cd standard output in case $CDPATH is set (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25036)
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && pwd -P ) || exit
+
+# Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
+MAX_FD=maximum
+
+warn () {
+    echo "$*"
+} >&2
+
+die () {
+    echo
+    echo "$*"
+    echo
+    exit 1
+} >&2
+
+# OS specific support (must be 'true' or 'false').
+cygwin=false
+msys=false
+darwin=false
+nonstop=false
+case "$( uname )" in                #(
+  CYGWIN* )         cygwin=true  ;; #(
+  Darwin* )         darwin=true  ;; #(
+  MSYS* | MINGW* )  msys=true    ;; #(
+  NONSTOP* )        nonstop=true ;;
+esac
+
+CLASSPATH=$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
+
+
+# Determine the Java command to use to start the JVM.
+if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then
+    if [ -x "$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java" ] ; then
+        # IBM's JDK on AIX uses strange locations for the executables
+        JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java
+    else
+        JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java
+    fi
+    if [ ! -x "$JAVACMD" ] ; then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: $JAVA_HOME
+
+Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+location of your Java installation."
+    fi
+else
+    JAVACMD=java
+    if ! command -v java >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+
+Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+location of your Java installation."
+    fi
+fi
+
+# Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
+if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
+    case $MAX_FD in #(
+      max*)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
+        MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
+            warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
+    esac
+    case $MAX_FD in  #(
+      '' | soft) :;; #(
+      *)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
+        ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
+            warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
+    esac
+fi
+
+# Collect all arguments for the java command, stacking in reverse order:
+#   * args from the command line
+#   * the main class name
+#   * -classpath
+#   * -D...appname settings
+#   * --module-path (only if needed)
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and GRADLE_OPTS environment variables.
+
+# For Cygwin or MSYS, switch paths to Windows format before running java
+if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
+    APP_HOME=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$APP_HOME" )
+    CLASSPATH=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$CLASSPATH" )
+
+    JAVACMD=$( cygpath --unix "$JAVACMD" )
+
+    # Now convert the arguments - kludge to limit ourselves to /bin/sh
+    for arg do
+        if
+            case $arg in                                #(
+              -*)   false ;;                            # don't mess with options #(
+              /?*)  t=${arg#/} t=/${t%%/*}              # looks like a POSIX filepath
+                    [ -e "$t" ] ;;                      #(
+              *)    false ;;
+            esac
+        then
+            arg=$( cygpath --path --ignore --mixed "$arg" )
+        fi
+        # Roll the args list around exactly as many times as the number of
+        # args, so each arg winds up back in the position where it started, but
+        # possibly modified.
+        #
+        # NB: a `for` loop captures its iteration list before it begins, so
+        # changing the positional parameters here affects neither the number of
+        # iterations, nor the values presented in `arg`.
+        shift                   # remove old arg
+        set -- "$@" "$arg"      # push replacement arg
+    done
+fi
+
+
+# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
+DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
+
+# Collect all arguments for the java command:
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
+#     and any embedded shellness will be escaped.
+#   * For example: A user cannot expect ${Hostname} to be expanded, as it is an environment variable and will be
+#     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
+
+set -- \
+        "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \
+        -classpath "$CLASSPATH" \
+        org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain \
+        "$@"
+
+# Stop when "xargs" is not available.
+if ! command -v xargs >/dev/null 2>&1
+then
+    die "xargs is not available"
+fi
+
+# Use "xargs" to parse quoted args.
+#
+# With -n1 it outputs one arg per line, with the quotes and backslashes removed.
+#
+# In Bash we could simply go:
+#
+#   readarray ARGS < <( xargs -n1 <<<"$var" ) &&
+#   set -- "${ARGS[@]}" "$@"
+#
+# but POSIX shell has neither arrays nor command substitution, so instead we
+# post-process each arg (as a line of input to sed) to backslash-escape any
+# character that might be a shell metacharacter, then use eval to reverse
+# that process (while maintaining the separation between arguments), and wrap
+# the whole thing up as a single "set" statement.
+#
+# This will of course break if any of these variables contains a newline or
+# an unmatched quote.
+#
+
+eval "set -- $(
+        printf '%s\n' "$DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS $JAVA_OPTS $GRADLE_OPTS" |
+        xargs -n1 |
+        sed ' s~[^-[:alnum:]+,./:=@_]~\\&~g; ' |
+        tr '\n' ' '
+    )" '"$@"'
+
+exec "$JAVACMD" "$@"
diff --git a/standalone/gradlew.bat b/standalone/gradlew.bat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..93e3f59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/standalone/gradlew.bat
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+@rem
+@rem Copyright 2015 the original author or authors.
+@rem
+@rem Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+@rem you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+@rem You may obtain a copy of the License at
+@rem
+@rem      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+@rem
+@rem Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+@rem distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+@rem WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+@rem See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+@rem limitations under the License.
+@rem
+
+@if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
+@rem ##########################################################################
+@rem
+@rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
+@rem
+@rem ##########################################################################
+
+@rem Set local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
+if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
+
+set DIRNAME=%~dp0
+if "%DIRNAME%"=="" set DIRNAME=.
+@rem This is normally unused
+set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
+set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%
+
+@rem Resolve any "." and ".." in APP_HOME to make it shorter.
+for %%i in ("%APP_HOME%") do set APP_HOME=%%~fi
+
+@rem Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
+set DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS="-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"
+
+@rem Find java.exe
+if defined JAVA_HOME goto findJavaFromJavaHome
+
+set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
+%JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
+if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto execute
+
+echo.
+echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+echo.
+echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+echo location of your Java installation.
+
+goto fail
+
+:findJavaFromJavaHome
+set JAVA_HOME=%JAVA_HOME:"=%
+set JAVA_EXE=%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java.exe
+
+if exist "%JAVA_EXE%" goto execute
+
+echo.
+echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME%
+echo.
+echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+echo location of your Java installation.
+
+goto fail
+
+:execute
+@rem Setup the command line
+
+set CLASSPATH=%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar
+
+
+@rem Execute Gradle
+"%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain %*
+
+:end
+@rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
+if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto mainEnd
+
+:fail
+rem Set variable GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE if you need the _script_ return code instead of
+rem the _cmd.exe /c_ return code!
+set EXIT_CODE=%ERRORLEVEL%
+if %EXIT_CODE% equ 0 set EXIT_CODE=1
+if not ""=="%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit %EXIT_CODE%
+exit /b %EXIT_CODE%
+
+:mainEnd
+if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" endlocal
+
+:omega
diff --git a/standalone/settings.gradle.kts b/standalone/settings.gradle.kts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..36e9005
--- /dev/null
+++ b/standalone/settings.gradle.kts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+rootProject.name = "standalone"