Introduction
Introducing Gradle is a quick start-up primer on the Gradle build automation tool. The book starts by explaining the fundamentals behind Gradle and showing you how to set up and test Gradle on your local machine. It explains the basics of Groovy, the language for creating Gradle build scripts. It then delves deeply into concepts such as dependency management, projects, tasks, lifecycle phases, and plugins. It also discusses Gradle’s support for multi-projects and publishing artifacts to local and remote repositories. Finally, it concludes with a discussion of continuous integration (CI) and a review of Jenkins support for Gradle.
How This Book Is Structured
Chapter 1 starts with a gentle introduction to Gradle. It discusses reasons ...
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