Abandoned attempt to migrate to Gradle and introduce Kotlin

build.gradle

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+buildscript {
+    ext.kotlin_version = '1.2.41'
+
+    repositories {
+        jcenter()
+        mavenCentral()
+    }
+    dependencies {
+        classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:2.0.5.RELEASE")
+        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
+        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-allopen:$kotlin_version" // See https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/compiler-plugins.html#kotlin-spring-compiler-plugin
+
+    }
+}
+
+apply plugin: 'java'
+apply plugin: "kotlin"
+apply plugin: "kotlin-spring" // See https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/compiler-plugins.html#kotlin-spring-compiler-plugin
+apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot'
+apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management'
+
+repositories {
+    mavenCentral()
+    mavenLocal()
+}
+
+sourceCompatibility = 1.8
+targetCompatibility = 1.8
+
+dependencies {
+    compile "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web"
+    compile "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-validation"
+    compile "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-freemarker"
+
+    compile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8"
+    compile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-reflect:$kotlin_version"
+
+    compile "com.fasterxml.jackson.module:jackson-module-kotlin:2.9.7"
+    compile "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.9.7"
+    compile "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.9.7"
+    compile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8"
+    compile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-reflect:$kotlin_version"
+
+    compile "commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload:1.3.1"
+    compile "uk.co.squadlist:squadlist-api-client:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT"
+    compile "com.google.guava:guava:16.0"
+    compile "org.apache.commons:commons-csv:1.0"
+    compile "org.mnode.ical4j:ical4j:1.0.2"
+    compile "oro:oro:2.0.8"
+    compile "org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.6.1"
+    compile "org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-core-asl:1.9.4"
+    compile "org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-mapper-asl:1.9.4"
+    compile "joda-time:joda-time:2.1"
+    compile "uk.co.eelpieconsulting.common:common-dates:1.0.10"
+    compile "jpwgen:jpwgen:1.2.0"
+    compile "commons-cli:commons-cli:1.2"
+    compile "com.restfb:restfb:1.46.0"
+    compile "commons-io:commons-io:2.4"
+    compile "org.apache.velocity:velocity:1.7"
+
+    compile "org.springframework:spring-aop"
+    compile "org.aspectj:aspectjweaver:1.7.0"
+
+    compile ('log4j:log4j:1.2.17')
+
+    testCompile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test")
+    testCompile("junit:junit:4.12")
+    testRuntime("org.junit.vintage:junit-vintage-engine:5.3.1")
+    testCompile 'org.mockito:mockito-core:1.10.8'
+
+    compile "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools"
+
+}
+
+compileKotlin {
+    kotlinOptions {
+        jvmTarget = "1.8"
+    }
+}
+compileTestKotlin {
+    kotlinOptions {
+        jvmTarget = "1.8"
+    }
+}
+
+test {
+    useJUnitPlatform()
+}