Gradle dependency management using pom.xml - maven

Question

In build.gradle we specify the dependencies as
compile group: 'org.apache.pig', name: 'pigunit', version: '0.11.0-cdh4.5.0', transitive: true
Running gradle cleanEclipse eclipse sets up the projects(adds the jar to classpath)
However there are only maven dependencies available for some APIs
(I am trying to run jersey 2.x examples bundle from https://jersey.java.net/download.html and it provides only pom.xml)
EDIT:
I know i can specify
compile group: 'groupId', name: 'artifactId', version: 'version' gradle but doing it manually for all dependencies or writing a program to do so should not be natural gradle way.
Gradle provides a maven plugin http://gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/maven_plugin.html.I haven't tried it out but it should be able to do it

Answer 1

Gradle supports Maven dependencies. Just specify the dependencies in the same way as your example:
compile group: 'groupId', name: 'artifactId', version: 'version'
To lookup the the artifact coordinates, you can use sites like http://search.maven.org
The only thing you have to make sure is to include either your internal Maven repository (if you are in a company which has one) or Maven Central:
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
or
repositories {
maven {
url "http://repo.mycompany.com/maven2"
}
}