Getting started
In this section, we will download and install Gradle before writing our first Gradle build script.
Before we install Gradle, we must make sure that we have a Java Development SE Kit (JDK) installed on our computer. Gradle requires JDK 6 or higher. Gradle will use the JDK found on the path of our computer. We can check this by running the following command on the command line:
$ java -version
Although Gradle uses Groovy, we don't have to install Groovy ourselves. Gradle bundles the Groovy libraries with the distribution and will ignore a Groovy installation that is already available on our computer.
Gradle is available on the Gradle website at http://www.gradle.org/downloads. From this page, we can download the latest release of ...
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