Gradle in Action

Summary

Gradle in Action is a comprehensive guide to end-to-end project automation with Gradle. Starting with the basics, this practical, easy-to-read book discusses how to build a full-fledged, real-world project. Along the way, it touches on advanced topics like testing, continuous integration, and monitoring code quality. You’ll also explore tasks like setting up your target environment and deploying your software.

About the Technology

Gradle is a general-purpose build automation tool. It extends the usage patterns established by its forerunners, Ant and Maven, and allows builds that are expressive, maintainable, and easy to understand. Using a flexible Groovy-based DSL, Gradle provides declarative and extendable language elements that let you model your project’s needs the way you want.

About the Book

Gradle in Action is a comprehensive guide to end-to-end project automation with Gradle. Starting with the basics, this practical, easy-to-read book discusses how to establish an effective build process for a full-fledged, real-world project. Along the way, it covers advanced topics like testing, continuous integration, and monitoring code quality. You’ll also explore tasks like setting up your target environment and deploying your software.

The book assumes a basic background in Java, but no knowledge of Groovy.

Whats Inside

• A comprehensive guide to Gradle
• Practical, real-world examples
• Transitioning from Ant and Maven
• In-depth plugin development
• Continuous delivery with Gradle

Table of Contents

Part 1- lntroducing Gradle

1 Introduction to project automation

2 Next-generation builds with Gradle

3 Building a Gradle project by example

Part 2- Mastering the fundamentals

4 Build script essentials

5 Dependency management

6 Multiproject builds

7 Testing with Gradle

8 Extending Gradle

9 Integration and migration

Part 3- From build to deployment

10 IDE support and tooling

11 Building polyglot projects

12 Code quality management and monitoring

13 Continuous integration

14 Artifact assembly and publishing

15 Infrastructure provisioning and deployment

About the Author

Benjamin Muschko is a member of the Gradleware engineering team and the author of several popular Gradle plugins.