title: gradle: adding jar to web-inf
body: <p>i have created a gradle build and added java, scala, war, jetty  code and its all working fine.</p>
  
  <pre><code>
  
  apply plugin: 'java'
  apply plugin: 'scala'
  apply plugin: 'war'
  apply plugin: 'jetty'
  
  List compileTime = [
                      "javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.4@jar",
                      "org.scalatra:scalatra_2.8.0:2.0.0.M2@jar",
                      "org.mortbay.jetty:jetty:6.1.22@jar",
                      "com.mongodb.casbah:casbah_2.8.0:2.0.2@jar",
                      "org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.8.1@jar"
              ]
  
  List runTime = [
                      "org.scalatra:scalatra_2.8.0:2.0.0.M2@jar",
                      "com.mongodb.casbah:casbah_2.8.0:2.0.2@jar",
                      "org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.8.1@jar"
              ]
  
  //                  "org.mortbay.jetty:servlet-api:2.5-20081211@jar",
   repositories {
      mavenCentral()
      mavenRepo urls: ["http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases","http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2","http://repo1.maven.org/maven2","https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots","https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases"]
  }
  
  dependencies {
          scalaTools 'org.scala-lang:scala-compiler:2.8.1'
          scalaTools 'org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.8.1'
            compile compileTime
              runtime runTime
            testCompile "junit:junit:3.8.2"   
        } 
  
  task myTask (type: War) {
    println configurations.runtime.collect
    println classpath()
   }
  
  war {
     // from 'main/webapp' 
      webInf { from 'src/main/webapp/WEB-INF' }
    //  classpath classpath() /
      classpath configurations.runtime
  
      webXml = file('src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml') 
  }
  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I like to 
  1) Add only the necessary jars. in the war, in the above code i am getting Jetty and servlet jars in my war. !</p>