Spring Boot 1 and Gradle: ClassNotFoundException SpringApplicationBuilder - spring-boot

Question

I've got a Gradle configuration for a Spring Boot 1.5 application. It runs fine in Spring Tool Suite, but gradlew build creates a jar file with no jar files in the BOOT-INF folder. This of course prevents the successful execution of the jar file:
java -jar build\libs\myapp-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.springframework.boot.loader.MainMethodRunner.run(MainMethodRunner.java:48)
at org.springframework.boot.loader.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:87)
at org.springframework.boot.loader.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:51)
at org.springframework.boot.loader.JarLauncher.main(JarLauncher.java:52)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/boot/builder/SpringApplicationBuilder
at myapp.boot.Application.runWithContextHierarchy(Application.java:50)
at myapp.boot.Application.main(Application.java:33)
... 8 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:382)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418)
at org.springframework.boot.loader.LaunchedURLClassLoader.loadClass(LaunchedURLClassLoader.java:94)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
... 10 more
build.gradle excerpt:
plugins {
id 'org.springframework.boot' version '1.5.22.RELEASE'
id 'java'
}
dependencies {
implementation('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web')
implementation('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-jdbc')
implementation('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa')
...
}

Answer 1

Turns out that Spring Boot 1 isn't able to work with implementation dependencies, but with (deprecated) compile dependencies.
Working build.gradle dependencies:
dependencies {
compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web')
compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-jdbc')
compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa')
....
}