{"id":85,"date":"2011-09-07T21:28:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T20:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serverdude.dk\/?p=85"},"modified":"2012-07-19T11:48:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T10:48:14","slug":"building-and-testing-with-gradle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverdude.dk\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Building and testing with Gradle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Written by Tim Berglund<\/a> and Matthew McCullogh<\/a> published by O’Reilly, ISBN: 9781449304638<\/p>\n

The only book out there on Gradle, and it is relatively new published July 2011. At 110 pages it is rather short, and doesn’t cover everything about Gradle – it’s not a ‘Complete guide to Gradle’, but the 6 chapters cover the basics in the obvious ways:<\/p>\n

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  1. Hello, Gradle!<\/li>\n
  2. Gradle Tasks<\/li>\n
  3. Ant and Gradle<\/li>\n
  4. Maven and Gradle<\/li>\n
  5. Testing with Gradle<\/li>\n
  6. Multiproject Builds<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The book does provide pointers for migrating from e.g. Maven to Gradle. As I’m not intimately familiar with neither Maven nor Gradle, I can’t really say if it is sufficient to jump from Ant directly into Gradle, or if a quick pit-stop in the Maven (3?) camp is beneficial.<\/p>\n

    There are a few kind of typos in the book, e.g. Example 1-5 the src directory seems to be a subdirectory of the build.gradle file, this is fixed in Example 1-6 though.<\/p>\n

    There’s also a minor issue with the doFirst() method – I’d suggest saying that this would prepend or prefix the closure to the existing block as opposed to saying appending to the beginning.<\/p>\n

    The book is more concise and better organized than the Gradle user guide<\/a> which seems to do a halfbaked description, then referring to a later chapter. <\/p>\n

    Running some modified examples from the book – not from the github repository – I experienced a rather detrimental blow up when applying the plugins for Scala and Groovy. The compiler dependencies need to be added to the build file. <\/p>\n

    Being the only book on the subject it’s sad that it’s not a Complete Guide, but it does fulfill what the title promises, it’s just not enough. An okay read though.<\/p>\n

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