With the Gradle plugin you can easily build your Vaadin applications with Gradle. To use the plugin you only have to include the following line in your build.gradle to automatically download the plugin: apply from: 'http://plugins.jasoft.fi/vaadin.plugin' or if you want to use a specific version of the plugin apply from: 'http://plugins.jasoft.fi/vaadin.plugin?version=x.x.x' However, if you do not have online access or do not always want to download the latest version of the plugin from the download site you can download the plugin from the directory and manually add it to your build.gradle project.