Replace Build Artifact with build.gradle in Intellij IDEA

Question

I have Intellij IDEA's "Build Artifact" configured properly to generate an executable JAR containing resources, MANIFEST.MF,compiled classes, etc. But isn't Gradle supposed to manage that? I'm going to eventually need to use features in building that JAR that are unavailable from the Build Artifact GUI. How do I port the Build Artifact configs to a gradle.build file instead?

I see in IDEA > File > Settings... > Build, Execution, Deployment > Buld Tools > Gradle > [] Delegate IDE build/run actions to gradle, but that checkbox is disabled despite my project module having a build.gradle . And I'm not sure that feature does what I want.

Answer 1

IDE will not create jar artifacts automatically based on build.gradle files.

If you want to configure some specific aspects of artifacts from gradle scripts consider using gradle-idea-ext-plugin . See Artifacts DSL section of the plugin's documentation.

Answer 2

Add JAR Gradle-Task to your Run or Debug Configuration:

You'll find your JAR artifact in project's folder: Test/build/libs .