By Oliver Spryn

You can find a Gradle plugin to do just about anything with Java. If you have ever worked on any modern Java application with this build tool, then you are no doubt accustomed to importing and applying plugins to the top of your .gradle files before you can build. However, in some cases, you’ll encounter a missing link that cannot be adequately addressed by anything on the web. I have encountered this situation several times and was surprised how easy it was to mend this discrepancy.