Example of calling Gradle from Ant

gradle-wrapper.xml

<project name="gradle-wrapper" default="" basedir=".">
	<description>
    </description>
	<!-- set global properties for this build -->
	<property environment="env" />
	<property name="gradle.executable" location="${env.GRADLE_HOME}/bin/gradle" />
	
	<target name="jar">
		<exec executable="${gradle.executable}" dir=".">
			<arg value="jar" />
		</exec>
	</target>
	
	<target name="dist">
		<exec executable="${gradle.executable}" dir=".">
			<arg value="dist" />
		</exec>
	</target>
	<target name="clean">
		<exec executable="${gradle.executable}" dir=".">
			<arg value="clean" />
		</exec>
	</target>
	<target name="test">
		<exec executable="${gradle.executable}" dir=".">
			<arg value="test" />
		</exec>
	</target>
	<target name="eclipse">
		<exec executable="${gradle.executable}" dir=".">
			<arg value="eclipse" />
		</exec>
	</target>

</project>

Thanks! Just what I was looking for today. I've updated the "gradle.executable" to handle windows and linux runtime environments (some of our developers are on windows but then we deploy to linux servers).

https://gist.github.com/DouglasCAyers/6637662

<property environment="env" />

<condition property="gradle.executable" value="${env.GRADLE_HOME}/bin/gradle.bat" else="${env.GRADLE_HOME}/bin/gradle">
    <os family="windows" />
</condition>

Thanks a lot! Was very helpful for me