When you apply gretty plugin, it adds farm extension object to the current project.

You can (but you don’t have to) configure farm extension object in your gradle script:

farm {
  // ... properties
}

Farm extension object corresponds to default farm.

Default farm defines set of farm tasks: farmRun, farmRunDebug, etc.

If you don’t specify any farm properties (or omit farm extension object altogether), farm tasks run with reasonable defaults.

Farm consists of two parts:

See also: Multiple web-apps.