The Gradle Interface: Gradle Build Metadata

As I’ve shown in previous posts such as “Identifying Gradle Conventions” and “Evolving Gradle Build from Ant Build: Importing Ant…

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Differentiating Ant Target-Based Gradle Tasks

In my blog post Evolving Gradle Build from Ant Build: Importing Ant Build File, I demonstrated using Gradle‘s built-in AntBuilder-based…

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Evolving Gradle Build from Ant Build: Importing Ant Build File

Changing the build system on a large project can be difficult and a lot of work. Fortunately for those migrating…

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Identifying Gradle Conventions

Configuration by convention has many advantages, especially in terms of conciseness because developers do not need to explicitly configure things…

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Simple Gradle Java Plugin Customization

As I demonstrated in the post A First Look at Building Java with Gradle, Gradle is particularly concise and easy…

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Gradle Command-Line Conveniences

In my post A First Look at Building Java with Gradle, I briefly mentioned using Gradle‘s “gradle tasks” command to…

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Gradle: do we need another build tool?

In the early days of Java development, we either didn’t see much of a need for build tools, or used…

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Gradle Goodness: Running a Single Test

We can run test code with Gradle using the test task that is added by the Java plugin. By default…

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Simple Spring MVC Web Application using Gradle

This post will be similar to our previous post, Simple Gradle Web Application, except we will now use Spring MVC,…

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