Create gradle build for cassjmeter project

[jasobrown]

Thanks!

[quidryan]

Starting work on this. It's pretty easy to overlay gradle over this. I just want to understand one bit about the final artifacts. It looks like it wants all the dependency libs in a directory. Is this needed because it runs on its own? Would onejar be a better alternative? I'm not familiar with how JMeter plugins work.

[jasobrown]

Actually, one big jar would be better. However, we need to exclude the jmeter jars from that big jar.

[quidryan]

I'm investigating how JMeter plugins should be built, and it's not exactly clear from their documentation. If I can't figure out it out, I'll just take the naive approach and exclude some deps by hand.

[quidryan]

On hold until I get back next week.

Looking at Maven builds for jmeter plugins, they use the shade plugin. That makes sense and luckily a Gradle one came out recently:

http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/announcing_gradle_shadow_plugin_maven_shade_port

[jasobrown]

bump :)

[jasobrown]

bump again @quidryan