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 establishe d 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. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. Whats Inside A comprehensive guide to Gradle Practical, real-world examples Transitioning from Ant and Maven In-depth plugin development Continuous delivery with Gradle About the Author Benjamin Muschko is a member of the Gradleware engineering team and the author of several popular Gradle plugins. Table of Contents Part 1: Introducing Gradle Chapter 1. Introduction to project automation Chapter 2. Next-generation builds with Gradle Chapter 3. Building a Gradle project by example Part 2: Mastering the fundamentals Chapter 4. Build script essentials Chapter 5. Dependency management Chapter 6. Multiproject builds Chapter 7. Testing with Gradle Chapter 8. Extending Gradle Chapter 9. Integration and migration Part 3: From build to deployment Chapter 10. IDE support and tooling Chapter 11. Building polyglot projects Chapter 12. Code quality management and monitoring Chapter 13. Continuous integration Chapter 14. Artifact assembly and publishing Chapter 15. Infrastructure provisioning and deployment Appendix A. Driving the command line Appendix B. Groovy for Gradle users Book Details Title: Gradle in Action Author: Benjamin Muschko Length: 480 pages Edition: 1 Language: English Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 2014-03-09 ISBN-10: 1617291307 ISBN-13: 9781617291302 Gradle is the next step in JVM-based build tools. It draws on lessons learned from established build tools like Ant and Maven, incorporating and improving upon their best ideas, like full flexibility and convention over configuration. In Gradle, problem domains are declaratively modeled using a powerful Groovy DSL instead of cumbersome XML. As a result, builds are far more expressive, extensible, and testable. '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. It also covers tasks like setting up target environments and deploying software. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.