Gradle in Action
The authoritative guide.
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.
Table of Contents detailed table of contents
foreword
preface
acknowledgments
about this book
about the cover illustration
Part 1 Introducing Gradle
1. Introduction to project automation
1.1. Life without project automation
1.2. Benefits of project automation
1.3. Types of project automation
1.4. Build tools
1.5. Java build tools
1.6. Summary
2. Next-generation builds with Gradle
2.1. Why Gradle? Why now?
2.2. Gradle’s compelling feature set
2.3. The bigger picture: continuous delivery
2.4. Installing Gradle
2.5. Getting started with Gradle
2.6. Using the Command line
2.7. Summary
3. Building a Gradle project by example
3.1. Introducing the case study
3.2. Building a Java project
3.3. Web development with Gradle
3.4. Gradle wrapper
3.5. Summary
Part 2 Mastering the fundamentals
4. Build script essentials
4.1. Building blocks
4.2. Working with tasks
4.3. Hooking into the build lifecycle
4.4. Summary
5. Dependency management
5.1. A quick overview of dependency management
5.2. Learning dependency management by example
5.3. Dependency configurations
5.4. Declaring dependencies
5.5. Using and configuring repositories
5.6. Understanding the local dependency cache
5.7. Troubleshooting dependency problems
5.8. Summary
6. Multiproject builds
6.1. Modularizing a project
6.2. Assembling a multiproject build
6.3. Configuring subprojects
6.4. Individual project files
6.5. Customizing projects
6.6. Summary
7. Testing with Gradle
7.1. Automated testing
7.2. Testing Java applications
7.3. Unit testing
7.4. Configuring test execution
7.5. Integration testing
7.6. Functional testing
7.7. Summary
8. Extending Gradle
8.1. Introducing the plugin case study
8.2. From zero to plugin
8.3. Writing a script plugin
8.4. Writing custom task classes
8.5. Using and building object plugins
8.6. Summary
9. Integration and migration
9.1. Ant and Gradle
9.2. Maven and Gradle
9.3. Comparing builds
9.4. Summary
Part 3 From build to deployment
10. IDE support and tooling
10.1. Using IDE plugins to generate project files
10.2. Managing Gradle projects in popular IDEs
10.3. Embedding Gradle with the tooling API
10.4. Summary
11. Building polyglot projects
11.1. Managing JavaScript with Gradle
11.2. Building polyglot, JVM-based projects
11.3. Other languages
11.4. Summary
12. Code quality management and monitoring
12.1. Integrating code analysis into your build
12.2. Measuring code coverage
12.3. Performing static code analysis
12.4. Integrating with Sonar
12.5. Summary
13. Continuous integration
13.1. Benefits of continuous integration
13.2. Setting up Git
13.3. Building a project with Jenkins
13.4. Exploring cloud-based solutions
13.5. Modeling a build pipeline with Jenkins
13.6. Summary
14. Artifact assembly and publishing
14.1. Building artifacts and distributions
14.2. Publishing artifacts to a binary repository
14.3. Publishing to a public binary repository
14.4. Artifact assembly and publishing as part of the build pipeline
14.5. Summary
15. Infrastructure provisioning and deployment
15.1. Infrastructure provisioning
15.2. Targeting a deployment environment
15.3. Automated deployments
15.4. Deployment tests
15.5. Deployment as part of the build pipeline
15.6. Summary
Appendix A: Driving the command line
Appendix B: Groovy for Gradle users
index
About the Technology
Gradle is a general-purpose build automation tool. It extends the usage patterns established 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.