Converting Maven Dependencies to Gradle
I had the, er, honor of converting an old ANT build to Gradle. It was one of those with the directories filled with jars and was having a hard time figuring out what dependency was still in use, what the versions were, etc. That is when I found a pom.xml file hidden away. It seems that the build process including manually supporting this Maven POM as well and the ANT build to get it to Artifactory.
I looked at the dependency list — not too long but longer than I wanted to copy, paste and manipulate. With any Googling, I quickly wrote my own Python script for it. That worked well for a first swipe. I had to do some tweaking for exclusions, etc, but it wasn’t a complicated script. See my Gist and convert away!
Anyone that has maintained an application over time, knows the fun of researching outdated dependency libraries. This is irregardless of the build tool.