buildscript { repositories { mavenCentral() } dependencies { classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.5.2.RELEASE") } } apply plugin: 'java' apply plugin: 'maven' apply plugin: 'idea' apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot' group = 'com.baeldung' version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT' description = """spring-boot""" sourceCompatibility = 1.8 targetCompatibility = 1.8 tasks.withType(JavaCompile) { options.encoding = 'UTF-8' } repositories { mavenCentral() } springBoot { executable = true } import org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ReplaceTokens processResources { with copySpec { from 'src/main/resources' include '**/application*.yml' include '**/application*.yaml' include '**/application*.properties' project.properties.findAll().each { prop -> if (prop.value != null) { filter(ReplaceTokens, tokens: [ (prop.key): prop.value]) filter(ReplaceTokens, tokens: [ ('project.' + prop.key): prop.value]) } } } } dependencies { compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter") }