gradle-java-monkey-patch

Create a monkey patch jar by combining classes and resources from a target dependency (jar) with classes and resources from the project. The project will inherit the transitive dependencies from the target so it's a drop-in replacement for the target jar.

Usage:

plugins {
    id "com.lazan.java-monkey-patch" version "1.0"
}

monkeyPatch {
    target = 'org.springframework:spring-context:4.3.9.RELEASE'
}

The resultant jar will be a patch of the spring-context jar with class overrides from src/main/java and resource overrides from src/main/resources. The transitive dependencies will be the same as spring-context (eg spring-expression, spring-core, spring-beans etc)