The Gradle nature of Pro Spring 5

I've started reading Pro Spring 5: An In-Depth Guide to the Spring Framework and Its Tools. It looks fun and interesting. The first issue I had was on having its code from GitHub working in my STS IDE. Here are a few notes on what I did to solve it, if someone else stumble in the same place.

First step was easy. After navigating through the File menu in this way ...

File
    Import...
        Git
            Project from Git
                GitHub
                    Clone URI

I entered the repository address: https://github.com/Apress/pro-spring-5.git

Second step should have been even easier. Add Gradle Nature to the project. It's just a matter of right-clicking on the project, and from the menu select

Configure
    Add Gradle Nature

Unfortunately, there are a few version numbers in the main "build.gradle" file for the project that are not currently working, leading to a number of annoying exceptions like:

A problem occurred evaluating project ':chapter02:hello-world'.
Could not resolve all files for configuration ':chapter02:hello-world:compile'.
Could not resolve org.springframework:spring-context:5.0.4.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.
Required by:
    project :chapter02:hello-world
Could not resolve org.springframework:spring-context:5.0.4.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.
Could not get resource ...
Could not HEAD ...
Read timed out
org.gradle.tooling.BuildException: Could not run build action ...

I tried to minimize the impact of my changes on the original configuration file.

Basically, when I had an issue, I moved to a newer version, preferring a stable RELEASE to BUILD-SNAPSHOT's or release candidates.

I also had a problem for

io.projectreactor.ipc:reactor-netty:0.7.0.M1

That I moved to

io.projectreactor.ipc:reactor-netty:0.7.9.RELEASE

More complicated was the problem for chapter five. It looks that I have something wrong for aspectJ in my configuration. I didn't to spend too much time on that now, assuming that it would lead to to some detail in that specific area. So I opened the aspectj-aspects gradle build file and commented the dependency to gradle-aspectj and the plugin application for aspectj itself.

Now my build.gradle for chapter five - aspectj-aspects has these lines in:

}

    dependencies {
//      classpath "nl.eveoh:gradle-aspectj:2.0"
    }
}
// apply plugin: 'aspectj'

Sure enough, it won't compile. Still, I finally added the gradle nature to the project and I can go on reading the book. I'll take care of that issue when I'll reach chapter five.

I've forked the original APress repository, and there I pushed my variants for the main build.gradle file, and the one for chapter 5, aspectj-aspects. See there for details.