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Gradle - A Better Way To Build

Gradle allows you to describe your build using a rich, easily extendable build language based on Groovy. It provides compelling solutions for many of the big pain points that exist with current build systems. This session will be mostly driven by live demos. You will see how easy and elegant Gradle enables you to solve a broad range of requirements - over the full life cycle of typical and atypical Java builds.

Gradle pushes declarative builds to a new level. It allows users to provide there own declarative elements and to customize the behavior of the build-in ones. Thus enabling concise, expressive and maintainable builds. All this is build on a rich, flexible imperative layer of tasks.

With its Deep API Gradle allows you to hook in and customize every aspect of the build, be it configuration or execution behavior.

Gradle has a particular focus on enterprise builds. It comes with many optimization strategies for building fast and yet reliable. It has a powerful support for multi-project builds and transitive dependency management. It allows to integrate with your existing Ant/Maven builds and your Ivy/Maven/Custom repositories.

In this session you will first learn about the philosophy and concepts of Gradle. After that we will go through a couple of live demos to see Gradle in action. You will see how easy and elegant you can do amazing things with Gradle.

The demos will span dependency management, test result analysis, code sharing, parallel testing, incremental builds, integrating with Ant/Maven and more.

Gradle in the Enterprise

The project automation requirements of complex enterprise builds are the true stress test for any build system. Gradle has a special focus on enterprise builds. In this session we will talk about and demo on: Multi-project builds, incremental builds, parallel testing, dependency management and concluding with organizing build logic, custom plugins and custom tasks.

The project automation requirements of complex enterprise builds are the true stress test for any build system. Gradle has a special focus on enterprise builds. In this session we will talk about and demo on: Multi-project builds, incremental builds, parallel testing, dependency management and concluding with organizing build logic, custom plugins and custom tasks.