diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index f61fb20..f2a00ff 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -1,23 +1,18 @@
-require "bundler/gem_tasks"
-require 'jars/version'
 
-begin
-  require 'rspec/core/rake_task'
-  RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec)
-rescue LoadError
-end
-
-task default: "spec"
+# encoding: utf-8
+require "jars/installer"
+require "fileutils"
 
-require 'jars/installer'
-desc 'Install the JAR dependencies to vendor/'
-task :install_jars do
-  # We actually want jar-dependencies will download the jars and place it in
-  # vendor/jar-dependencies/runtime-jars
-  Jars::Installer.new.vendor_jars!(false, 'vendor/jar-dependencies/runtime-jars')
+task :default do
+  system('rake -vT')
 end
 
-task build: :install_jars
-require "logstash/devutils/rake"
-task vendor: :install_jars
+task :vendor do
+  exit(1) unless system './gradlew vendor'
+end
 
+task :clean do
+  ["vendor/jar-dependencies", "Gemfile.lock"].each do |p|
+    FileUtils.rm_rf(p)
+  end
+end
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0899109
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+import java.nio.file.Files
+import static java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch licenses this file to you under
+ * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+ * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+apply plugin: "java"
+apply plugin: 'maven'
+apply plugin: "distribution"
+apply plugin: "idea"
+
+group "org.logstash.inputs"
+
+sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
+
+buildscript {
+    repositories {
+        mavenCentral()
+        jcenter()
+    }
+
+}
+
+repositories {
+    mavenCentral()
+}
+
+task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
+    gradleVersion = '4.0'
+}
+
+dependencies {
+  compile 'com.amazonaws:amazon-kinesis-client:1.7.0'
+  compile 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-core:1.11.16'
+  compile 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-dynamodb:1.11.14'
+  compile 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-s3:1.11.14'
+  compile 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-kms:1.11.14'
+  compile 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-core:1.11.16'
+  compile 'commons-logging:commons-logging:1.2'
+  compile 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.5.2'
+  compile 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:4.4.4'
+  compile 'commons-logging:commons-logging:1.2'
+  compile 'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.9'
+  compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.6.6'
+  compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.6.0'
+  compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.6.6'
+  compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-cbor:2.6.6'
+  compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.6.6'
+  compile 'joda-time:joda-time:2.8.1'
+  compile 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-kinesis:1.11.14'
+  compile 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-cloudwatch:1.11.14'
+  compile 'com.google.guava:guava:18.0'
+  compile 'com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:2.6.1'
+  compile 'commons-lang:commons-lang:2.6'
+}
+
+task generateGemJarRequiresFile {
+    doLast {
+        File jars_file = file('lib/logstash-input-kinesis_jars.rb')
+        jars_file.newWriter().withWriter { w ->
+            w << "# AUTOGENERATED BY THE GRADLE SCRIPT. DO NOT EDIT.\n\n"
+            w << "require \'jar_dependencies\'\n"
+            configurations.runtime.allDependencies.each {
+                w << "require_jar(\'${it.group}\', \'${it.name}\', \'${it.version}\')\n"
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+task vendor {
+    doLast {
+        String vendorPathPrefix = "vendor/jar-dependencies"
+        configurations.runtime.allDependencies.each { dep ->
+            File f = configurations.runtime.filter { it.absolutePath.contains("${dep.group}/${dep.name}/${dep.version}") }.singleFile
+            String groupPath = dep.group.replaceAll('\\.', '/')
+            File newJarFile = file("${vendorPathPrefix}/${groupPath}/${dep.name}/${dep.version}/${dep.name}-${dep.version}.jar")
+            newJarFile.mkdirs()
+            Files.copy(f.toPath(), newJarFile.toPath(), REPLACE_EXISTING)
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+vendor.dependsOn(generateGemJarRequiresFile)
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6b1823d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+org.gradle.daemon=false
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d0bd875
Binary files /dev/null and b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8de2fda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#Wed Jun 21 11:39:16 CEST 2017
+distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+distributionPath=wrapper/dists
+zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.0-all.zip
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..cccdd3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+
+##############################################################################
+##
+##  Gradle start up script for UN*X
+##
+##############################################################################
+
+# Attempt to set APP_HOME
+# Resolve links: $0 may be a link
+PRG="$0"
+# Need this for relative symlinks.
+while [ -h "$PRG" ] ; do
+    ls=`ls -ld "$PRG"`
+    link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
+    if expr "$link" : '/.*' > /dev/null; then
+        PRG="$link"
+    else
+        PRG=`dirname "$PRG"`"/$link"
+    fi
+done
+SAVED="`pwd`"
+cd "`dirname \"$PRG\"`/" >/dev/null
+APP_HOME="`pwd -P`"
+cd "$SAVED" >/dev/null
+
+APP_NAME="Gradle"
+APP_BASE_NAME=`basename "$0"`
+
+# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
+DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS=""
+
+# Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
+MAX_FD="maximum"
+
+warn () {
+    echo "$*"
+}
+
+die () {
+    echo
+    echo "$*"
+    echo
+    exit 1
+}
+
+# OS specific support (must be 'true' or 'false').
+cygwin=false
+msys=false
+darwin=false
+nonstop=false
+case "`uname`" in
+  CYGWIN* )
+    cygwin=true
+    ;;
+  Darwin* )
+    darwin=true
+    ;;
+  MINGW* )
+    msys=true
+    ;;
+  NONSTOP* )
+    nonstop=true
+    ;;
+esac
+
+CLASSPATH=$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
+
+# Determine the Java command to use to start the JVM.
+if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then
+    if [ -x "$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java" ] ; then
+        # IBM's JDK on AIX uses strange locations for the executables
+        JAVACMD="$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java"
+    else
+        JAVACMD="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
+    fi
+    if [ ! -x "$JAVACMD" ] ; then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: $JAVA_HOME
+
+Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+location of your Java installation."
+    fi
+else
+    JAVACMD="java"
+    which java >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+
+Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+location of your Java installation."
+fi
+
+# Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
+if [ "$cygwin" = "false" -a "$darwin" = "false" -a "$nonstop" = "false" ] ; then
+    MAX_FD_LIMIT=`ulimit -H -n`
+    if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
+        if [ "$MAX_FD" = "maximum" -o "$MAX_FD" = "max" ] ; then
+            MAX_FD="$MAX_FD_LIMIT"
+        fi
+        ulimit -n $MAX_FD
+        if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
+            warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit: $MAX_FD"
+        fi
+    else
+        warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit: $MAX_FD_LIMIT"
+    fi
+fi
+
+# For Darwin, add options to specify how the application appears in the dock
+if $darwin; then
+    GRADLE_OPTS="$GRADLE_OPTS \"-Xdock:name=$APP_NAME\" \"-Xdock:icon=$APP_HOME/media/gradle.icns\""
+fi
+
+# For Cygwin, switch paths to Windows format before running java
+if $cygwin ; then
+    APP_HOME=`cygpath --path --mixed "$APP_HOME"`
+    CLASSPATH=`cygpath --path --mixed "$CLASSPATH"`
+    JAVACMD=`cygpath --unix "$JAVACMD"`
+
+    # We build the pattern for arguments to be converted via cygpath
+    ROOTDIRSRAW=`find -L / -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d 2>/dev/null`
+    SEP=""
+    for dir in $ROOTDIRSRAW ; do
+        ROOTDIRS="$ROOTDIRS$SEP$dir"
+        SEP="|"
+    done
+    OURCYGPATTERN="(^($ROOTDIRS))"
+    # Add a user-defined pattern to the cygpath arguments
+    if [ "$GRADLE_CYGPATTERN" != "" ] ; then
+        OURCYGPATTERN="$OURCYGPATTERN|($GRADLE_CYGPATTERN)"
+    fi
+    # Now convert the arguments - kludge to limit ourselves to /bin/sh
+    i=0
+    for arg in "$@" ; do
+        CHECK=`echo "$arg"|egrep -c "$OURCYGPATTERN" -`
+        CHECK2=`echo "$arg"|egrep -c "^-"`                                 ### Determine if an option
+
+        if [ $CHECK -ne 0 ] && [ $CHECK2 -eq 0 ] ; then                    ### Added a condition
+            eval `echo args$i`=`cygpath --path --ignore --mixed "$arg"`
+        else
+            eval `echo args$i`="\"$arg\""
+        fi
+        i=$((i+1))
+    done
+    case $i in
+        (0) set -- ;;
+        (1) set -- "$args0" ;;
+        (2) set -- "$args0" "$args1" ;;
+        (3) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" ;;
+        (4) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" ;;
+        (5) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" "$args4" ;;
+        (6) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" "$args4" "$args5" ;;
+        (7) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" "$args4" "$args5" "$args6" ;;
+        (8) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" "$args4" "$args5" "$args6" "$args7" ;;
+        (9) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" "$args4" "$args5" "$args6" "$args7" "$args8" ;;
+    esac
+fi
+
+# Escape application args
+save () {
+    for i do printf %s\\n "$i" | sed "s/'/'\\\\''/g;1s/^/'/;\$s/\$/' \\\\/" ; done
+    echo " "
+}
+APP_ARGS=$(save "$@")
+
+# Collect all arguments for the java command, following the shell quoting and substitution rules
+eval set -- $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS $JAVA_OPTS $GRADLE_OPTS "\"-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME\"" -classpath "\"$CLASSPATH\"" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain "$APP_ARGS"
+
+# by default we should be in the correct project dir, but when run from Finder on Mac, the cwd is wrong
+if [ "$(uname)" = "Darwin" ] && [ "$HOME" = "$PWD" ]; then
+  cd "$(dirname "$0")"
+fi
+
+exec "$JAVACMD" "$@"
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f955316
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+@if "%DEBUG%" == "" @echo off
+@rem ##########################################################################
+@rem
+@rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
+@rem
+@rem ##########################################################################
+
+@rem Set local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
+if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
+
+set DIRNAME=%~dp0
+if "%DIRNAME%" == "" set DIRNAME=.
+set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
+set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%
+
+@rem Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
+set DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS=
+
+@rem Find java.exe
+if defined JAVA_HOME goto findJavaFromJavaHome
+
+set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
+%JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
+if "%ERRORLEVEL%" == "0" goto init
+
+echo.
+echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+echo.
+echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+echo location of your Java installation.
+
+goto fail
+
+:findJavaFromJavaHome
+set JAVA_HOME=%JAVA_HOME:"=%
+set JAVA_EXE=%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java.exe
+
+if exist "%JAVA_EXE%" goto init
+
+echo.
+echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME%
+echo.
+echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+echo location of your Java installation.
+
+goto fail
+
+:init
+@rem Get command-line arguments, handling Windows variants
+
+if not "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" goto win9xME_args
+
+:win9xME_args
+@rem Slurp the command line arguments.
+set CMD_LINE_ARGS=
+set _SKIP=2
+
+:win9xME_args_slurp
+if "x%~1" == "x" goto execute
+
+set CMD_LINE_ARGS=%*
+
+:execute
+@rem Setup the command line
+
+set CLASSPATH=%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar
+
+@rem Execute Gradle
+"%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain %CMD_LINE_ARGS%
+
+:end
+@rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
+if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" goto mainEnd
+
+:fail
+rem Set variable GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE if you need the _script_ return code instead of
+rem the _cmd.exe /c_ return code!
+if  not "" == "%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit 1
+exit /b 1
+
+:mainEnd
+if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" endlocal
+
+:omega
diff --git a/lib/logstash-input-kinesis_jars.rb b/lib/logstash-input-kinesis_jars.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e93d925
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/logstash-input-kinesis_jars.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# AUTOGENERATED BY THE GRADLE SCRIPT. DO NOT EDIT.
+
+require 'jar_dependencies'
+require_jar('com.amazonaws', 'amazon-kinesis-client', '1.7.0')
+require_jar('com.amazonaws', 'aws-java-sdk-core', '1.11.16')
+require_jar('com.amazonaws', 'aws-java-sdk-dynamodb', '1.11.14')
+require_jar('com.amazonaws', 'aws-java-sdk-s3', '1.11.14')
+require_jar('com.amazonaws', 'aws-java-sdk-kms', '1.11.14')
+require_jar('commons-logging', 'commons-logging', '1.2')
+require_jar('org.apache.httpcomponents', 'httpclient', '4.5.2')
+require_jar('org.apache.httpcomponents', 'httpcore', '4.4.4')
+require_jar('commons-codec', 'commons-codec', '1.9')
+require_jar('com.fasterxml.jackson.core', 'jackson-databind', '2.6.6')
+require_jar('com.fasterxml.jackson.core', 'jackson-annotations', '2.6.0')
+require_jar('com.fasterxml.jackson.core', 'jackson-core', '2.6.6')
+require_jar('com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat', 'jackson-dataformat-cbor', '2.6.6')
+require_jar('joda-time', 'joda-time', '2.8.1')
+require_jar('com.amazonaws', 'aws-java-sdk-kinesis', '1.11.14')
+require_jar('com.amazonaws', 'aws-java-sdk-cloudwatch', '1.11.14')
+require_jar('com.google.guava', 'guava', '18.0')
+require_jar('com.google.protobuf', 'protobuf-java', '2.6.1')
+require_jar('commons-lang', 'commons-lang', '2.6')
diff --git a/logstash-input-kinesis.gemspec b/logstash-input-kinesis.gemspec
index 0d56e60..3d4c660 100644
--- a/logstash-input-kinesis.gemspec
+++ b/logstash-input-kinesis.gemspec
@@ -15,16 +15,13 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
 
   spec.files         = Dir['lib/**/*','spec/**/*','vendor/**/*','*.gemspec','*.md','CONTRIBUTORS','Gemfile','LICENSE','NOTICE.TXT']
   spec.test_files    = spec.files.grep(%r{^(test|spec|features)/})
-  spec.require_paths = ['lib', 'vendor/jar-dependencies/runtime-jars']
+  spec.require_paths = ['lib', 'vendor/jar-dependencies/']
 
   # Special flag to let us know this is actually a logstash plugin
   spec.metadata      = { "logstash_plugin" => "true", "logstash_group" => "input" }
 
   spec.platform      = 'java'
 
-  spec.requirements << "jar 'com.amazonaws:amazon-kinesis-client', '1.7.0'"
-  spec.requirements << "jar 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-core', '1.11.16'"
-
   spec.add_runtime_dependency "logstash-core-plugin-api", ">= 1.60", "<= 2.99"
 
   spec.add_development_dependency 'logstash-devutils'