diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/README.adoc b/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/README.adoc
index 0f97dfb55108..2b613ebfddf3 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/README.adoc
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/README.adoc
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ These map almost fully 1:1 with the options you'd pass to the CLI or Maven plugi
 
 Tasks are listed under the "OpenAPI Tools" tasks heading.
 
-
 .OpenAPI Tools Tasks
 |===
 |task name |description
@@ -38,6 +37,30 @@ compileJava.dependsOn tasks.openApiGenerate
 ```
 ====
 
+All extensions can be rewritten as tasks. Where you can have only a single extension defined in your gradle file, you may have multiple tasks.
+
+.One Extension, multiple tasks
+[source,groovy]
+----
+// Validating a single specification
+openApiValidate {
+    inputSpec = "$rootDir/petstore-v3.0-invalid.yaml".toString()
+}
+
+// Define a task for validating one specification
+task validateGoodSpec(type: org.openapitools.generator.gradle.plugin.tasks.ValidateTask){
+    inputSpec = "$rootDir/petstore-v3.0.yaml".toString()
+}
+
+// Define a task for validating another specification
+task validateBadSpec(type: org.openapitools.generator.gradle.plugin.tasks.ValidateTask){
+    inputSpec = "$rootDir/petstore-v3.0-invalid.yaml".toString()
+}
+
+// Define a task for batch validations
+task validateSpecs(dependsOn: ['validateGoodSpec', 'validateBadSpec'])
+----
+
 == Plugin Setup
 
 //# RELEASE_VERSION
diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/samples/local-spec/build.gradle b/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/samples/local-spec/build.gradle
index 70d810a83cb5..c8c7e25dc0bb 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/samples/local-spec/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/samples/local-spec/build.gradle
@@ -91,3 +91,13 @@ task generateGoWithInvalidSpec(type: org.openapitools.generator.gradle.plugin.ta
             dateLibrary: "threetenp"
     ]
 }
+
+task validateGoodSpec(type: org.openapitools.generator.gradle.plugin.tasks.ValidateTask){
+    inputSpec = "$rootDir/petstore-v3.0.yaml".toString()
+}
+
+task validateBadSpec(type: org.openapitools.generator.gradle.plugin.tasks.ValidateTask){
+    inputSpec = "$rootDir/petstore-v3.0-invalid.yaml".toString()
+}
+
+task validateSpecs(dependsOn: ['validateGoodSpec', 'validateBadSpec'])