The Spring Boot Gradle Plugin provides Spring Boot support in https://gradle.org[Gradle].
It allows you to package executable jar or war archives, run Spring Boot applications, and use the dependency management provided by `spring-boot-dependencies`.
Spring Boot's Gradle plugin requires Gradle 5.x (4.10 is also supported but this support is deprecated and will be removed in a future release).
Spring Boot's Gradle plugin requires Gradle 5.x or 6.x (4.10 is also supported but this support is deprecated and will be removed in a future release).
In addition to this user guide, {api-documentation}[API documentation] is also available.
If the {application-plugin}[`application` plugin] has been applied, its `mainClassName` project property must be configured and can be used for the same purpose:
If the {application-plugin}[`application` plugin] has been applied, its `mainClassName` property must be configured and can be used for the same purpose: