Updating Gradle or Gradle Wrapper

[mcraghead]

I'm new to NetBeans and to Gradle. I'm using JDK 21 and it seems that Gradle 8.4, which is part of Netbeans 20, is not compatible. How do I update Gradle/Gradle wrapper to the most recent, stable version?

Also, I sense that there is a distinction between Gradle and Gradle wrapper. Is that correct? If so, what is the difference?

Thank you.

[neilcsmith-net]

Amongst other ways, right click on the project, select Run Gradle > Tasks and then in the dialog enter ...

wrapper --gradle-version latest

... and run it.

After doing this on one project, you might find that new projects pick this up automatically. NB21 has some fixes to work better here, from 21-rc3 (keep an eye on #6962 )

Gradle wrapper is a small script that exists in your project to download and run the configured version of Gradle needed to build / run your project. NetBeans also supports the Maven wrapper that does similar.

Neither Gradle or the wrapper are strictly part of NetBeans - the Gradle Tooling API is. A library for IDEs and other tools to run Gradle projects. Yet another piece of the puzzle! 😄