Gradle is a build system written in groovy. it uses groovy also as the language for its build scripts. it has a powerful multi-project build support. it has a layer on top of ivy that provides a build-by-convention integration for ivy. it gives you always the choice between the flexibility of ant and the convenience of a build-by-convention behavior.

this package contains the gradle osgi plugin. if the java plugins is applied, the osgi plugin replaces the manifest object of the default jar with an osgimanifest object. the replaced manifest is merged into the new one. the osgi plugin makes heavy use of peter kriens bnd tool.