Creating runnable JAR with Gradle

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An executable jar file is just a jar file containing a Main-Class entry in its manifest. So you just need to configure the jar task in order to add this entry in its manifest:

jar {
    manifest {
        attributes 'Main-Class': 'com.foo.bar.MainClass'
    }
}

You might also need to add classpath entries in the manifest, but that would be done the same way.

See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/jar/manifestindex.html

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