Anyone tried to build plugins with gradle? If so, how did you manage to do it?
Yes.
I have an unfinished plugin at https://github.com/igniterealtime/openfire-passwordreset-plugin which uses Gradle to build the plugin. Also includes a handy Gradle task gradlew deploy which will delete the old plugin, wait for it to be unloaded, then drop in the current built.
(The plugin code itself isn’t complete, but the Gradle stuff works just fine).
Greg