Dear all
    I have invested some time to move the Virgo Snaps project from
      Ant/Ivy to Gradle build [1]. I pushed those changes to a new
      branch (development) into the repository [2]. The build now allows
      to build Snaps using the following options on the command line:
    ./gradlew clean build snapsDist -x
      :org.eclipse.virgo.snaps.test:test
    Currently the 'test' task of the 'org.eclipse.virgo.snaps.test'
      sub project must be excluded as I was not able to get it to work
      until now. Anyway, it relies upon the Virgo test framework which
      we want to replace with PaxExam as I understood from previous
      conversation on virgo-dev. So, maybe we could directly move those
      integration tests using PaxExam instead of getting it to work with
      the old Virgo test framework.
    
    I also created a Hudson job for building Virgo Snaps from
      development branch [3].
    The project can now be imported using Gradles Buildship plugin in
      Eclipse/STS. I will additionally add Markdown Documentation files
      to the project later this week.
    @Stefan Zugal: If you're still up to this you can checkout the
      project 'git clone git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/virgo/org.eclipse.virgo.snaps.git
      --recursive' and give it a try. Let me know if you face some
      issues. If importing to your IDE works as expected please test it
      using one of the latest builds of Virgo for Tomcat server and let
      us know if it works or not.
    Regards,
      Dani
    
    [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=506579
      [2]
http://git.eclipse.org/c/virgo/org.eclipse.virgo.snaps.git/commit/?h=development&id=9a5bdea3eae1ef38c591b00e1096d490ecb70858
      
      [3]
      https://hudson.eclipse.org/virgo/view/Snaps/job/Snaps-Development/