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I grabed it thru the project.configurations.dependencies, but it doesn't seem to have a property that points to its location

Where does the dependency come from? Is the user supposed to provide it? Is it only for that executing, or is it also needed as production dependency?

It's defined as a depenedency for my plugin. So i assume when the user adds my plugin to his script, It will be available on the classpath.

Oh, I see, I misunderstood. So why do you need the location of the jar then? Just inject an

ExecOperations

instance into your plugin and use it`s

javaExec

method to run the program in a separate process, or just call the

main

method from your code if in-process execution is what you want.

Sorry, i'll be more descriptive. Instead of downloading a zip file manually, i ll add it to my build script as a dependency. I ll unzip the archive (dependency) which contains an executable jar. Then i ll invoke the jar with javaExec, but first i need to locate my zip file ( dependency)

Use

getResource

or

getResourceAsStream

to get the jar from inside the dependency and write it to some location.