在gradle项目中包括普通的Java项目作为依赖项

Question

I have two projects one plain java project and one gradle spring project created from jhipster

I would like to use the java project alongside with the gradle one. After search on the net i have found how to do it link1 but this works only if all my projects are gradles. Also when i try to add module dependency from Project Structure does not work.

Project tree

workspace
-project1
--build.gradle
-project2

What is the right way of doin this?

Also why i cannot make changes from IDE's project structure and automatically update build.gradle and settings.gradle with the new dependencies?

Answer 1

Change the plain java project into a gradle project, change the two projects into a gradle multi-project.

It's not hard to do, the plain java project probably just needs an almost empty build.gradle file and the settings.gradle file just needs to include it.

An IDE cannot help you much in these tasks, you will have to do most of it manually.