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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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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Eliminating Development Redeploys using Gradle

For service development, my team recently moved away from Grails to the Dropwizard framework. One of the things I really…

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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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Using Gradle to Build & Apply AST Transformations

Recently, I wanted to both build and apply local ast transformations in a Gradle project. While I could find several…

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Getting Started with Gradle: Creating a Binary Distribution

After we have created a useful application, the odds are that we want to share it with other people. One…

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Publish JAR artifact using Gradle to Artifactory

So I have wasted (invested) a day or two just to find out how to publish a JAR using Gradle…

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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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Getting Started with Gradle: Dependency Management

It is challenging, if not impossible, to create real life applications which don’t have any external dependencies. That is why…

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