title: How to integrate Play Framework 2.0 into Gradle build management using Maven dependencies?
body: <p>Play framework 2.0 is a full-stack standalone framework for creating web applications. Probably, many people need to integrate it into their build management, nevertheless. Unfortunately, I did not find much information about his.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my use case: I want to create a new project, which uses Scala and Play 2.0. I do NOT want to use sbt. I want to use Gradle, and dependency management should be done via Maven repositories.</p>
  
  <p>I have only found this play module: <a href="http://www.playframework.org/modules/maven-1.0/home" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.playframework.org/modules/maven-1.0/home</a> which supports dependency management via Maven. </p>
  
  <p>I am looking for something like these examples in Grails:
  <a href="https://github.com/grails/grails-gradle-plugin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/grails/grails-gradle-plugin</a> or <a href="http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/commandLine.html#4.5%20Ant%20and%20Maven" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/commandLine.html#4.5%20Ant%20and%20Maven</a></p>
  
  <p>Of course, I could write scripts / tasks which call "play console commands". Though, I do not like this solution. Is there a better way to use Gradle / Maven for build management? 
  If this is the only solution, then I would use Gradle, which then calls Play commands (i.e. sbt internally), right? Does this even work, or will there emerge other problems?</p>