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Java Spring Basics Spring Components and Configuring Our App Configuring Gradle for Spring Development

Posted by Marc Mañé
Marc Mañé
126 Points

Not working on Gradle 4.4

I have this code in the build.gradle, and sync fails:

plugins { id 'java' id 'idea' id 'eclipse' id "org.springframework.boot" version "2.0.3.RELEASE" }

group 'com.berenguerIV' version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'

sourceCompatibility = 1.8

repositories { mavenCentral() }

dependencies { compile 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web' }

Any ideas why this might fail?

1 Answer

Gergely Horvath
PLUS
Gergely Horvath
Courses Plus Student 8,207 Points
Gergely Horvath
Gergely Horvath
Courses Plus Student 8,207 Points

Without any given errror messages it is hard to guess, but you might want to stick to groovy syntax and respect newlines:

plugins {
    id 'java'
    id 'idea'
    id 'eclipse'
    id "org.springframework.boot" version "2.0.3.RELEASE"
}

group 'com.berenguerIV'
version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'

sourceCompatibility = 1.8

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    compile 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web'
}

This one builds for me.

MANOJ KUMAR YADAV
MANOJ KUMAR YADAV
3,507 Points

Also, check if you using a different version of java.

For me, I used below syntax for Java 10 and it worked me

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

plugins { id 'java' id 'idea' id 'eclipse' id 'org.springframework.boot' version '1.4.3.RELEASE' }

group 'com.teamtreehouse' version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'

sourceCompatibility = 1.10

repositories { mavenCentral() }

dependencies { // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-starter-web compile group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-starter-web', version: '2.0.5.RELEASE'

} //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Stefan Novak
Stefan Novak
6,791 Points

Thank you. This worked as of 06/04/2019.

It's a shame though, looks like this course is going to be full of these issues.