Jenkins version 2.x dependes on javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:3.1.0 but the generated dependency uses the old module name servlet-api which is not resolvable.

I have managed to work around this by adding the dependency explicitly and excluding the erroneous one, like so:

dependencies {
	compile 'javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:3.1.0'
}

configurations {
	all*.exclude module: 'servlet-api'
}