# Does Sonatype Nexus Repository Support Your Gradle Builds? Yes It Does

**June 15, 2012**  
By [Tim OBrien](/content/blog/author/tim-obrien/index.html)

1 minute read time

In support of this week's release of [Gradle 1.0](http://gradle.org/downloads), here's an evaluation guide for Nexus Professional (now known as [Sonatype Nexus Repository](/content/products/sonatype-nexus-repository/index.html)) using two, very simple Gradle projects. If you are evaluating Nexus Professional, or if you are just looking for sample projects that configure a Gradle build to use a [repository](/content/resources/articles/what-are-code-repositories/index.html) take a look at this guide.

Take a look at this evaluation guide and download the associated sample projects. These two projects have build.gradle files that demonstrate the simplest case of configuring a Gradle build to:

- Download [dependencies](/content/resources/articles/what-are-software-dependencies/index.html) from a Nexus Repository Group with Gradle

- Deploy an Artifact to a Nexus Snapshot Repository from Gradle

- Staging an Artifact to a Nexus Staging Repository from Gradle

Update 2013-05: The evaluation guide has been updated and is now available in HTML and PDF format.

Written by **Tim OBrien**

Tim is a Software Architect with experience in all aspects of software development from project inception to developing scaleable production architectures for large-scale systems during critical, high-risk events such as Black Friday. He has helped many organizations ranging from small startups to Fortune 100 companies take a more strategic approach to adopting and evaluating technology and managing the risks associated with change.