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This presentation was part of EXPERTALKS: Jul 2012 conducted at Equal Experts India on 28th July 2012. Visit http://meetup.com/expertalks to know more... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For quite a long time now, Build Automation on projects has been synonymous with 2 tools: Ant and Maven. While both tools are pretty effective & widely used, they have their share of shortcomings. GRADLE brings in the much needed evolution in build automation. Gradle combines the strengths of Maven and Ant resulting in a more effective way to build. Needless to say, it is the build tool of choice for us here at Equal Experts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This presentation talks about Gradle. The PPT also accompanied a workshop conducted as part of EXPERTALKS: Jul 2012
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…a better way to build
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A simple build cycle
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Why Gradle?
Ant features: Maven features:A flexible tool Build by conventionXML scripts Dependency
managementBuild tasks
But these are not enough
What’s needed:• Sensible defaults yet easy customization• Readable and maintainable scripts• Faster builds• Easy scalability
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Gradle is:• Faster
• Concise
• Groovy DSL
• Flexible
• Programmable
• Integrates with Ant
• Supports Groovy and Scala
• Scalable
• Structured
• Open Source
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FasterIncremental builds make it faster.
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Concise – smaller scriptsbuild.gradleapply plugin : ’java’build.xml
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Groovy DSLDSL is more readable than XML
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FlexibleEasy to customize default behaviour
Here’s Gradle doing a specific customization…
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Maven doing that same customization…
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ProgrammableGo ahead and write your own tasks
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Integration with Ant
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Workshop Time !!!
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Heads Up…
Gradle setup
Hello World Gradle
More about Task
Build your Java project
Create your Jar
Manage dependency for JUnit
Create and deploy your War
Multi-project build
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Setup instructions
Installation
Environment Variables
• Requires JAVA_HOME
• Set GRADLE_HOME
• Add $GRADLE_HOME/bin to PATH
Run gradle -v
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Basic script
build.gradle
task hello << {
println ‘Hello World !’
}
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Find the examples on Git Hub:
https://github.com/Tejaswita/Tejaswita/tree/
master/Gradle_Introduction
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Forum:http://forums.gradle.org/gradle
References:http://gradle.org/documentation
http://gradle.org/docs/current/dsl/index.html
Building and Testing with Gradle – by Tim Berglund & Matthew McCullough
Gradle User Guide
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Take Away
A solution that provides convention over configuration approach to the build process and an approach at building that isn’t based
on XML
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