Step 3 Adding Kotlin Microservices with Vertx
Step 3 Adding Kotlin Microservices with Vertx We decided to add Kotlin to the mix. It is terse and modern and very compatible with the core Java libs. It builds on your knowledge of Java. The Idea guys explain how to do add Kotlin to a Gradle project, yet it still took some messing around. You can find the source code for this in this branch. To do this we added the Kotlin plugin to gradle. Adding Kotlin to gradle buildscript { repositories { mavenCentral() } dependencies { classpath org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.0.0-beta-4584 } } plugins { id java id application id com.github.johnrengelman.shadow version 1.2.2 id idea } apply plugin : " kotlin " ... dependencies { ... compile org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.12 compile org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.0.0-beta-4584 testCompile group : junit , name : junit , version : 4.11 } Most of the gradle build files stays the same. The way we build and execute stays the same as well. We left WebVerticle ...