What are the jars provided by an application server?

Question

I am switching my build chain from the one provided by Eclipse to Gradle. When I develop a web application in Eclipse, I used to add a particular server runtime, so to have the jars provided by the application server already in the classpath.

Now that I am swtiching to Gradle, how do I know what are the jars provided from the application server and which must consequently indicated as providedCompile instead of compile ?

Answer 1

This might help you. in essence, you'll need the 'war' gradle plugin: https://gesellix.net/providedcompile-and-compile-dependencies-with-gradle/

Answer 2

It would depend on your app server: they all come with different JARs (obviously stuff like Servlet etc being provided by all)

You could remove the Server Runtime from your Eclipse classpath and see what breaks?