Gradle Plugin

Gradle is a build automation system that uses the Groovy language to establish the configuration of the build project, rather than using XML as Maven does. The Gradle plugin provided by Code Insight scans a codebase created in Gradle and sends the results, as inventory, to the Code Insight server for review, management, and remediation through the user interface. The plugin scans only the following:

• Direct dependencies of a project

• Transitive dependencies of a project

• The distribution folder containing application jars

note

The Gradle plugin does not scan the jars present in the lib folder, which contains plugin-dependent jars.

The following topics describe how to install and configure the Gradle plugin:

• Prerequisites for the Gradle Plugin

• Installing and Configuring the Gradle Plugin