About composite builds

Hi,

I have a web project that produces several wars, let’s call them frontend and backend, that are usually built and deployed at once. Each of them uses a set of common internal dependencies which in turn share a set of managed external dependencies.

Right now im building the projects seperately, each of the wars has its own gradle wrapper and needs its own compile run.

Is this a good use case for a composite build? Is the composite build intended to produce several artefacts at all? The documentation seems to be all about a single root project with hierarchical dependencies, kind of the opposite of what I’m doing.

Thanks!

Composites are about combining builds that should remain independent, e.g. for debugging or integration testing or for breaking down a monolith.

This sounds more like you want them to be one build in one repository. In that case they should just be a single multi-project build.