This is an example application of my blog post:

• Getting Started with Gradle: Our First Java Project

You can package the application by running one of the following commands at command prompt:

gradle assemble (runs only the tasks required to create the jar file)
gradle build (runs the full build)

Both commands create a jar file called first-java-project.jar to the build/libs directory.

You can run the application by running the following command at command prompt:

java -jar first-java-project.jar