The Java Library Distribution Plugin
| ✨ | The Java library distribution plugin is currently incubating. Please be aware that the DSL and other configuration may change in later Gradle versions. | 
The Java library distribution plugin adds support for building a distribution ZIP for a Java library. The distribution contains the JAR file for the library and its dependencies.
Usage
To use the Java library distribution plugin, include the following in your build script:
plugins {
    id 'java-library-distribution'
}plugins {
    `java-library-distribution`
}To define the name for the distribution you have to set the baseName property as shown below:
distributions {
    main {
        baseName = 'my-name'
    }
}distributions {
    main {
        baseName = "my-name"
    }
}The plugin builds a distribution for your library. The distribution will package up the runtime dependencies of the library. All files stored in src/main/dist will be added to the root of the archive distribution. You can run “gradle distZip” to create a ZIP file containing the distribution.
Tasks
The Java library distribution plugin adds the following tasks to the project.
- distZip— Zip
- 
Depends on: jarCreates a full distribution ZIP archive including runtime libraries. 
Including other resources in the distribution
All of the files from the src/dist directory are copied. To include any static files in the distribution, simply arrange them in the src/dist directory, or add them to the content of the distribution.
distributions {
    main {
        baseName = 'my-name'
        contents {
            from 'src/dist'
        }
    }
}distributions {
    main {
        baseName = "my-name"
        contents {
            from("src/dist")
        }
    }
}