Gradle Goodness: Shortcut Notation for Dependencies

In a Gradle build script we define dependencies with the dependencies method. We can use a map notation or the short string notation. The string notation is the following format: group:name:version.

dependencies {
    compile group: 'commons-lang', name: 'commons-lang', version: '2.4'  // Map notation.
    compile(
        [group: 'commons-lang', name: 'commons-lang', version: '2.4'],
        [group: 'commons-io', name: 'commons-io', version: '1.4']
    )  // Multiple map notation.
    compile 'commons-lang:commons-lang:2.4', 'commons-io:commons-io:1.4'  // String notation.
}

Written with Gradle 0.8.