Automatic promotion of artifacts to Maven Central from Gradle

Quick tutorial how to promote/release artifacts in a Gradle project to Maven Central, without clicking in the Nexus GUI with…

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Getting Started with Gradle: Creating a Web Application Project

This blog post describes how we can create a web application project with Gradle. To be more specific, we want…

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Spock 1.0 with Groovy 2.4 configuration comparison in Maven and Gradle

Quick tutorial how to configure Spock 1.0 with Groovy 2.4 using Maven and Gradle. Spock 1.0 has been finally released.…

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Building Vert.x projects using Gradle

We currently use Vert.x in several internal and external projects. Until the most recent project we where building our Vert.x modules using…

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Dropwizard, MongoDB and Gradle Experimenting

Introduction I created a small project using Dropwizard, MongoDB and Gradle. It actually started as an experimenting Guava cache as…

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Getting Started with Gradle: Creating a Multi-Project Build

Although we can create a working application by using only one module, sometimes it is wiser to divide our application…

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Gradle Goodness: Rename Ant Task Names When Importing Ant Build File

Migrating from Ant to Gradle is very easy with the importBuild method from AntBuilder. We only have to add this…

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Gradle Goodness: Continue Build Even with Failed Tasks

If we run a Gradle build and one of the tasks fails, the whole build stops immediately. So we have…

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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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