Gradle JavaExec Task Type

External

• https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.tasks.JavaExec.html
• https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/tasks/JavaExec.html
• https://www.baeldung.com/gradle-run-java-main

Internal

• Gradle Tasks
• Java Plugin

Overview

Executes a Java application as a child process. To get details on the actual java command line, execute Gradle with -i command line option.

task codeGen(type: JavaExec) {
    classpath = configurations.runtimeClasspath
    main = 'myPackage.MyMainClass'
    args 'something somethingelse'
}