We currently use Vert.x in several internal and external projects. Until the most recent project we where building our Vert.x modules using Maven. Gradle is our build tool of choice, but the default approach described at the Vert.x site caused several issues:

• The task of cloning, cleaning and configuring the template project is error-prone;
• The template project does not support recent Gradle versions >= 2.x;
• This approach is not compatible with the Gradle support in IntelliJ IDEA.

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