Switch to Gradle (if it's possible)

[cardil]

Maybe a switch to Grade build tool can be done.

It must, however, preserve the current behavior. In detail:

• use multi module project structure
• use self created BOM's as well as third party ones, for managing dependencies
• produce poms that follow structure needed by Maven central: (at least: name, description, url, version, groupId, artifactId, organization, licenses, developers, scm, issueManagement, ciManagement, distributionManagement tags)
• build project with Jacoco coverage
• build project with SonarQube
• create sources jar for every artifact
• create javadoc jar for every artifact
• sign all artifacts with GPG key
• support for annotation processing technologies like Lombok, Immutables or Mapstruct

[cardil]

Best examples of working projects, under control of Gradle, are:

• https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework
• https://github.com/spockframework/spock

[kunalvarpe]

@cardil It is possible but lot of efforts. Need to divide this is smaller tickets and then once can work on them.