This document provides an overview of Gradle, an open-source build automation tool. It discusses how Gradle offers flexibility and convention-based dependency management powered by Groovy. The document also covers installing Gradle, build phases, common plugins for languages and software development, and includes examples of using Gradle with Java projects. It concludes by inviting questions.

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2. What
is
Gradle
?
Build
automa0on
evolved

3. Gradle
Dependency
management
and
Flexibility
conven0on

4. Powered
by

5. Installa3on:
1-­‐
Download
Gradle
2-­‐
Added
GRADLE_HOME/bin
to
your
PATH
environment
variable
JVM
Op3ons:
GRADLE_OPTS
or
JAVA_OPTS

6. Build
phases
Ini3aliza3on
Gradles
determine
which
projects
are
going
to
take
part
in
the
build.
Configura3on
The
build
scripts
of
all
projects
which
are
part
of
the
build
are
executed.
Execu3on
Gradle
determine
the
subset
of
the
tasks,
created
and
configured
during
the
configura0on
phase,
to
be
executed.

7. Plugins:
Languages:
java
groovy
scala
Integra3on:
ear
war
maven
jenkins
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developments:
checkstyle
findbugs
sonar

8. Let’s
see
code!!!

12. Java
plugin

14. Successful
Gradle
users

15. https://github.com/jefersonm/sandbox/tree/gh-
pages/grails/gradle

16. Ques3ons
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