A mature Minecraft plugin API (not including an implementation), licensed under the MIT License. If you do not have Gradle installed then use ./gradlew for Unix systems or Git Bash and gradlew.bat for Windows systems in place of any 'gradle' command. Sponge will use a javac version of at least 11. If an older JDK is used to launch Gradle, JDK 11 will be downloaded automatically. SpongeAPI is the tool developers use to create plugins for the Sponge platform.