islomar/poc-gradle

Time to learn a little bit about Gradle :-)

Gradle Proof of Concept

Time to learn a little bit about Gradle :-) https://gradle.org/

Installation

https://gradle.org/install/ Just use SDKMAN!! :-)

Tutorials

https://guides.gradle.org/creating-new-gradle-builds/ >> create the basic-demo folder http://www2.gradle.com/Materials/IntroToGradle_TrainingMaterials

Java

https://docs.gradle.org/4.4.1/userguide/tutorial_java_projects.html https://guides.gradle.org/building-java-applications/

Maven related links

• https://guides.gradle.org/migrating-from-maven/
• https://gradle.org/maven-vs-gradle/

Personal notes (basic demo)

• You can visualize and debug your build with build scans
• A project includes a collections of tasks. Gradle tasks are organized into categories.
• gradle tasks: it shows you which tasks are available, which ones you can use.
• gradle wrapper: generates a Gradle wrapper file. The wrapper is a small script and supporting jar and properties file that allows a user to execute Gradle tasks even if they don’t already have Gradle installed.
• IMPORTANT: While Gradle versions are very good about supporting backward compatibility, using a wrapper ensures that the user is working with a version of Gradle that the project creator supports, and is therefore considered a good practice.
• Execute all the tasks: ./gradlew tasks --all
• Execute the copy task: ./gradlew copy
• Remove the build directory: ./gradlew clean

Personal notes (java demo)

• gradle init --type java-application
• Report: file:///home/islomar/workspace/poc-gradle/java-demo/build/reports/tests/test/index.html
• Execute application: ./gradlew run

Plugins

Gradle includes a range of plugins, and many, many more are available at the Gradle plugin portal.

Best practices

• Use SDKMAN
• Use a wrapper