diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 18a65b13e14..8e509452aa3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ Apache Kafka
 =================
 See our [web site](http://kafka.apache.org) for details on the project.
 
+You need to have [gradle](http://www.gradle.org/installation) installed.
+
+### First bootstrap and download the wrapper ###
+    gradle
+
+Now everything else will work
+
 ### Building a jar and running it ###
     ./gradlew jar  
 
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index f6e4f8ba080..63e20651e3b 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -29,10 +29,15 @@ allprojects {
   }
 }
 
+ext {
+    gradleVersion = "2.0"
+}
+
 def isVerificationRequired(project) {
     project.gradle.startParameter.taskNames.contains("uploadArchives")
 }
 
+apply from: file('wrapper.gradle')
 apply from: file('gradle/license.gradle')
 apply from: file('scala.gradle')
 
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index a7634b071cb..00000000000
Binary files a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index d238df326fe..00000000000
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#Thu Jul 11 22:18:11 PDT 2013
-distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.0-bin.zip