If you ever run into an exception similar to the following: Execution failed for task ‘:common:gwt-utils:gwtCompile’. at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.DefaultTaskExecuter.executeActions(DefaultTaskExecuter.java:66) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.DefaultTaskExecuter.execute(DefaultTaskExecuter.java:43) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.PostExecutionAnalysisTaskExecuter.execute(PostExecutionAnalysisTaskExecuter.java:32) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.ExecutionShortCircuitTaskExecuter.execute(ExecutionShortCircuitTaskExecuter.java:50) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.SkipTaskExecuter.doExecute(SkipTaskExecuter.java:57) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.SkipTaskExecuter.execute(SkipTaskExecuter.java:35) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.java:32) at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractTask.execute(AbstractTask.java:231) at org.gradle.execution.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.executeTask(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:167) at org.gradle.execution.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.doExecute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:160) at org.gradle.execution.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:78) at org.gradle.execution.TaskNameResolvingBuildExecuter.execute(TaskNameResolvingBuildExecuter.java:113) at org.gradle.execution.DelegatingBuildExecuter.execute(DelegatingBuildExecuter.java:54) at org.gradle.execution.DelegatingBuildExecuter.execute(DelegatingBuildExecuter.java:54) at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuildStages(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:153) at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuild(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:107) at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.run(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:75) at org.gradle.launcher.RunBuildAction.execute(RunBuildAction.java:41) at org.gradle.launcher.RunBuildAction.execute(RunBuildAction.java:27) at [...]

If you ever wanted to evaluate Hudson CI tool, and ran into a problem while loading any plugin and you get the following error messages: No ‘Plugin-Class’ entry in the manifest of …/path/to/plugin.hpi Then you’re experiencing a problem I just experienced. The problem lies in the particular version of the hudson.war file. Like me, you [...]

How exactly do you escape special characters from ANT?  Say if you need to add extra ” quotation characters within a property which already has a set of quotes? Here’s how to do it — use XML Character entity references: For > use &gt; For < use  &lt; For “ use &quot; For & use [...]