The Gradle buid system- Tutorial

The Gradle buid system- Tutorial

Lars Vogel Version 1.7 This tutorial describes how to use the Gradle build tool. Table of Contents 1.1. What is the Gradle build system? Gradle is an advanced general purpose build management system based on Groovy. A project describes its Gradle build in a file called build.gradle located in the root folder of the project. Gradle supports the management of project dependencies (libraries). For this it supports existing Maven and Ivy repositories for retrieving dependencies. This allows a reuse of artifacts of other build systems. Gradle has the notion of projects and tasks. A Gradle build consists of one or more projects. Projects can be something which should be built or something that should be done. Each project consists of tasks. A task represents a piece of work which a build performs, e.g., compile the source code or generate the Javadoc. Gradle tasks are similar to Ant targets. Gradle supports multi-project and multi-artifact builds. 1.2. The Gradle build file - build.

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