I have a WAR project that depends on a number of other projects -the jars produced by the sub-projects. This means that my WAR project has a compile time dependency on my sub projects. Obviously, when I create my WAR, it will need to bundle the runtime dependencies of my sub projects. This is where I'm having a problem. All of the runtime dependencies of the sub-projects live in the 'lib' folder of the each sub-project. I noticed that Gradle only looks in the lib folder (repository) of the WAR when trying to find these run-time dependencies.

I would like to have Gradle automatically look in the 'lib' folder of each sub-project for the appropriate transitive jars when building a WAR

Adam Murdoch provided the following workaround for this typical situation:

Add this to the root build file...

allprojects {
afterEvaluate { project ->
project.configurations.each { config ->
config.getDependencies(ProjectDependency.class).each {dep ->
dep.dependencyProject.repositories.each {repos ->
if (!project.repositories.all.contains(repos))

}
}
}
}
}

The only concern here is that each sub-project will need to have uniquely named repositories. This is not a major problem, but something to be aware of.

Here is the original message that started this conversation: http://www.nabble.com/Bundling-transitive-jars-in-WAR-td25862878.html