Migrated to gradle

Author: rmraya

.classpath

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 .DS_Store
 bin/
 .scannerwork/
-.vscode/
+.vscode/
+.gradle/
+build/

.gitignore

@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@ Features in development:
 
 ## Building
 
-You need Java 21 and [Apache Ant 1.10.14](https://ant.apache.org) or newer
+You need Java 21 and [Gradle](https://gradle.org/)
 
 - Point your JAVA_HOME variable to JDK 21
 - Checkout this repository
-- Run `ant` to compile the source code
+- Run `gradle` to compile the source code
 
 ``` text
 git clone https://github.com/rmraya/XMLJava.git
 cd XMLJava
-ant
+gradle
 ```

.project

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+plugins {
+    id 'java'
+}
+
+java {
+    toolchain {
+        languageVersion = JavaLanguageVersion.of(21)
+    }
+}
+
+sourceSets {
+    main {
+        java {
+            srcDirs = ['src']
+        }
+        resources {
+            srcDirs = ['src']
+            exclude '**/*.java'
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// Disable all caching for fresh builds
+gradle.startParameter.buildCacheEnabled = false
+tasks.configureEach {
+    outputs.upToDateWhen { false }
+}
+
+tasks.withType(JavaCompile).configureEach {
+    options.encoding = 'UTF-8'
+    // Disable incremental compilation for fresh builds
+    options.incremental = false
+}
+
+jar {
+    archiveBaseName = 'xmljava'
+    destinationDirectory = file('lib')
+}
+
+// Clean task to remove build outputs
+tasks.named('clean') {
+    doFirst {
+        delete 'lib/xmljava.jar'
+    }
+}
+
+// Default task
+defaultTasks 'build'