Spring Boot without DependencyManagementPlugin

build.gradle

buildscript {
    ext {
        springBootVersion = '1.5.2.RELEASE'
    }
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        // http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-gradle-plugin
        classpath group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-gradle-plugin', version: springBootVersion
    }
}

//apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot'
extensions.create 'springBoot', org.springframework.boot.gradle.SpringBootPluginExtension.class, project
project.plugins.apply(JavaPlugin.class)
new org.springframework.boot.gradle.agent.AgentPluginFeatures().apply(project)
new org.springframework.boot.gradle.repackage.RepackagePluginFeatures().apply(project)
new org.springframework.boot.gradle.run.RunPluginFeatures().apply(project)
//new org.springframework.boot.gradle.dependencymanagement.DependencyManagementPluginFeatures().apply(project)
//project.tasks.withType(JavaCompile.class).all(new org.springframework.boot.gradle.plugin.SpringBootPlugin.SetUtf8EncodingAction())