Updating instructions to describe how to build with Gradle

.travis.yml

@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ language: groovy
 rvm:
     - 1.8.8
 install:
-    - gradle build
+    - ./gradlew build
 before_script:
-    - gradle test
+    - ./gradlew test
     - export VERSION=${TRAVIS_TAG}.${TRAVIS_COMMIT:0:7}
 script:
-    - gradle -PpluginVersion=${VERSION}
+    - ./gradlew -PpluginVersion=${VERSION}
 jdk:
     - oraclejdk8
     - oraclejdk7

README.md

@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ This plugin is protected under the [Eclipse Public 1.0 License](http://www.eclip
 	The packaged zip is located in the releases folder. No special steps are required for installation.
 	See Installing plug-ins in UrbanCode Deploy. Download this zip file if you wish to skip the
 	manual build step. Otherwise, download the entire Slack-UCD and
-	run the "ant" command in the top level folder. This should compile the code and create
-	a new distributable zip within the releases folder. Use this command if you wish to make
+	run the "gradlew build" command in the top level folder. This should compile the code and create
+	a new distributable zip within the build/distributions folder. Use this command if you wish to make
 	your own changes to the plugin.
 
 ### History
@@ -43,15 +43,16 @@ This plugin is protected under the [Eclipse Public 1.0 License](http://www.eclip
     Version 2
         - Community GitHub Release
 
-### How to build the plugin from eclipse client:
+### How to build the plugin from Eclipse client:
 
 1. Expand the Groovy project that you checked-out from example template.
-2. Open build.xml file and execute it as an Ant Build operation (Run As -> Ant Build)
-3. The built plugin is located at releases/Slack-UCD-vdev.zip
+2. Open the `build.gradle` file and execute it as a Gradle Build operation (Run As -> Gradle Build)
+3. The built plugin is located at `build/distributions/Slack-UCD-vdev.zip`
 
 ### How to build the plugin from command line:
 
-1. Navigate to the base folder of the project through command line.
-2. Make sure that there is build.xml file there, and then execute 'ant' command.
-3. The built plugin is located at releases/Slack-UCD-vdev.zip
-Note: Edit the Build.xml to change the version 'dev' to a release number.
+1. Navigate to the base folder of the project through the command line.
+2. Make sure that the `build.gradle` file is there, then execute `gradlew build`
+    * To create a release version, append `-PpluginVersion=VERSION` where `VERSION` is the version you want (e.g. `5.0`)
+3. The built plugin is located at `build/distributions/Slack-UCD-vdev.zip`
+    * If you added the `PpluginVersion` flag, the file will have your version at the end (e.g. `Slack-UCD-v5.0.zip`)

build.gradle

@@ -177,3 +177,5 @@ String stripVersion(String fileNameWithVersion) {
     int end = fileNameWithVersion.lastIndexOf("-"); //assumes that: name-version.ext. Will not work with name-version-SNAPSHOT.ext
     return fileNameWithVersion.substring(0, end) + ext
 }
+
+build.finalizedBy distPlugin

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+distributionPath=wrapper/dists
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.0-bin.zip
+zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+zipStorePath=wrapper/dists