Converting Gradle project dependencies to Maven's xml syntax

This is a (very) short article about converting your projects from Maven to Gradle.

Maven / Gradle are the most popular dependency managers for Java projects, Gradle is the more straightforward to use, Maven is the more widely supported.

Occasionally you might want to convert a project managed by Gradle over to Maven.

The main issue around it is converting from Gradle’s Groovy syntax for dependencies over to Maven’s XML.

A snippet found on the internet details that adding the following to your build.gradle:

task writeNewPom << {
    pom {
        project {
            inceptionYear '<INSERT YEAR HERE>'
            licenses {
                license {
                    name 'The Apache Software License, Version 2.0'
                    url 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt'
                    distribution 'repo'
                }
            }
        }
    }.writeTo("pom.xml")
}

Will convert your gradle project over to a pom.xml!

Going from there you can define your build / install / compile steps as you like.