Generating pom.xml from gradle

README.md

To generate a pom.xml file just run gradle writeNewPom

If you want to generate it as pom.xml in the root of the project, replace writeTo("$buildDir/newpom.xml") with writeTo("pom.xml")

build.gradle

apply plugin: 'maven'
apply plugin: 'java'

sourceCompatibility = 7
targetCompatibility = 7

dependencies {
    compile            'com.google.guava:guava:13.0.1'
    compile            'joda-time:joda-time:2.1'
    
    testCompile        'junit:junit:4.11'
    testCompile        'org.mockito:mockito-core:1.9.5'
}

task writeNewPom << {
    pom {
        project {
            groupId 'org.example'
            artifactId 'test'
            version '1.0.0'
        
            inceptionYear '2008'
            licenses {
                license {
                    name 'The Apache Software License, Version 2.0'
                    url 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt'
                    distribution 'repo'
                }
            }
        }
    }.writeTo("$buildDir/newpom.xml")
}