Chapter 1. Getting Started with Gradle

Consider a typical IT company development center scenario. Different teams are working together on one enterprise project with many components. Teams are working on server-side technologies, frontend technologies, the messaging layer, mobile development and there may be a separate team responsible for Quality Assurance. Every team is working as per their schedule, developing their own component(s), unit testing and committing code, and this cycle is repeated in multiple iterations. So far, everybody is happy as they are able to meet the deadlines as per the software release dates. Then comes the integration phase, when teams have to build the complete project and deploy the software (which could be WAR, JAR, ...

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