FxBattle will be built by Gradle

One of the hold ups with FxBattle was JavaFx 1.3. When that was resolved, we'd forgotten how to build the system. It took a night at JavaOne to get it running again. We can build and run now using Fx 1.3 (which is WAY FASTER- YEAH!).

However, it's a big old hacky system and I don't like it. I used Maven, but lack of documentation, and severe rigidness were sufficient to make me want to abandon the technology. At JavaOne I learned about Gradle. It's a different kind of build toolkit.

I'm finding that I like it immensely. It is somewhat immature right now, but the activity surrounding it seems huge. The documentation is surprisingly complete for a product that isn't even version 1.0 yet. I've had some trouble getting plugins working in version 0.8. It required a bit of hacking and wasn't particularly strait forward. This said, 0.9 will have a much better plugin system (just drop a Jar into your system). There also appear to be plans for a plugin repository in the future so you can just ask for it by name.

I don't see a plugin for Gradle which builds JavaFx. If the plugin development documentation gets better, I may start such a plugin. At least, we'll have to be able to build JavaFx in FxBattle through Gradle.