Gradle Goodness: Using CopySpec with Tasks

To define a Copy task we specify the files we want to copy and to which directory. This definition is…

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Gradle Goodness: Using and Working with Gradle Version

To get the current Gradle version we can use the gradleVersion property of the Gradle object. This returns a string…

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Groovy Goodness: Closure as a Class

When we write Groovy code there is a big chance we also write some closures. If we are working with…

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Gradle Goodness: Running Groovy Scripts as Application

In a previous post we learned how to run a Java application in a Gradle project. The Java source file…

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Gradle Goodness: Adding Dependencies Only for Packaging to War

My colleague, Tom Wetjens, wrote a blog post Package-only dependencies in Maven. He showed a Maven solution when we want…

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Gradle Goodness: Getting More Dependency Insight

In most of our projects we have dependencies on other code, like libraries or other projects. Gradle has a nice…

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Grails Goodness: Using Converter Named Configurations with Default Renderers

Sometimes we want to support in our RESTful API a different level of detail in the output for the same…

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Groovy Goodness: Use Builder AST Transformation for Fluent API

Since Groovy 2.3 we can easily create a fluent API for our classes with the @Builder AST transformation. We can…

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Groovy Goodness: Define Compilation Customizers With Builder Syntax

Since Groovy 2.1 we can use a nice builder syntax to define customizers for a CompileConfiguration instance. We must use…

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