The gradle team is currently working on supporting that scenario, which we call “composite builds”. Composite builds allow you run multiple separate builds as if they’re one big gradle build and substitute the dependencies as you have described it. Idea is relying on that functionality. As you’ve seen in the ticket, it is “reopened”. I don’t have insights on idea development but the following thread describes in detail how this gradle core feature is initially supported by buildship, the official gradle plugin for eclipse: Exciting new Buildship Features coming up