diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9a33f906..4f8f9924 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /.classpath
 /.project
 .settings/
+.gradle
+build
 target/
 /log.roo
 
diff --git a/.gradle/1.0-milestone-3/taskArtifacts/.gitignore b/.gradle/1.0-milestone-3/taskArtifacts/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index b34d8944..00000000
--- a/.gradle/1.0-milestone-3/taskArtifacts/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-/cache.bin
-/cache.properties
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index b8149d16..cdf3bc6d 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ thrift.range = "[0.7, 0.8)"
 # --------------------
 # Project wide version
 # --------------------
-springShellVersion=1.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT
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+springShellVersion=1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
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diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/samples/helloworld/build.gradle b/samples/helloworld/build.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ac180071
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/helloworld/build.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+description = 'Hello World - Spring Shell'
+
+apply plugin: 'base'
+apply plugin: 'java'
+apply plugin: 'idea'
+apply plugin: 'eclipse'
+
+repositories {
+    mavenLocal()
+    mavenCentral()
+    // Public Spring artifacts
+    mavenRepo name: "spring-release", urls: "http://repo.springsource.org/release"
+    mavenRepo name: "spring-milestone", urls: "http://repo.springsource.org/milestone"
+    mavenRepo name: "spring-snapshot", urls: "http://repo.springsource.org/snapshot"
+}
+
+dependencies {
+    compile "org.springframework.shell:core:$springShellVersion"    
+}
+
+
+jar {
+    dependsOn configurations.runtime
+    from { 
+    	configurations.runtime.collect { 
+    		it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) 
+    	} 
+    }
+    
+    manifest {
+        attributes("Main-Class": "org.springframework.shell.Bootstrap")
+    }
+    
+}
+
+defaultTasks 'build'
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diff --git a/samples/helloworld/gradle.properties b/samples/helloworld/gradle.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5f6a31db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/helloworld/gradle.properties
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+springShellVersion=1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
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diff --git a/samples/helloworld/pom.xml b/samples/helloworld/pom.xml
index fa89c14c..c8e0a346 100644
--- a/samples/helloworld/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/helloworld/pom.xml
@@ -18,65 +18,13 @@
 	</properties>
 	
 	<dependencies>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>junit</groupId>
-			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-			<version>4.7</version>
-			<scope>test</scope>
-		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-			<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
-			<version>${spring.framework.version}</version>
-			<scope>test</scope>
-		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-			<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
-			<version>${spring.framework.version}</version>
-		</dependency>
-		
+				
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework.shell</groupId>
 			<artifactId>core</artifactId>
 			<version>${spring.shell.version}</version>
-		</dependency>
-		
-		<!-- CGLIB needed for use of @Configuration class based extension points -->
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>cglib</groupId>
-			<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
-			<version>2.2.2</version>
-		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>log4j</groupId>
-			<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
-			<version>1.2.14</version>
-		</dependency>
-		<!-- consider removing dependency on commons-io -->
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
-			<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-			<version>1.4</version>
-		</dependency>
-
-		<!-- External modules -->
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>net.sourceforge.jline</groupId>
-			<artifactId>jline</artifactId>
-			<version>1.0.S2-B</version>
-		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.fusesource.jansi</groupId>
-			<artifactId>jansi</artifactId>
-			<version>1.6</version>
-		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
-			<artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
-			<version>1.8.5</version>
-			<scope>test</scope>
-		</dependency>
+		</dependency>		
+				
 	</dependencies>
 
 	<build>
diff --git a/samples/helloworld/readme.txt b/samples/helloworld/readme.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..16c9e77c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/helloworld/readme.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Maven:
+
+1.Build the project
+  $>mvn package
+  
+2.run spring shell
+  $>java -jar target/helloworld-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
+  
+  
+Gradle:
+
+1.Build the project
+  $>../../gradlew build
+  
+2.run spring shell
+  $>java -jar build/libs/helloworld.jar
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