Learn You a Gradle Fu For Great Good

It's not too late to sign up for the Gradle training course that's coming to PDX in January*! The training came up at last night's PJUG (although Gradle builds for JVM languages in general). Here is my on-list response:

"That [500 line] pom.xml from last night is a great reminder of what is was like to use Maven. Maven is great at dependency management, but terrible at everything else. Gradle build scripts are readable, concise, only go into detail where it matters, and are configurable at a higher level of abstraction than Ant. Perhaps most importantly, Gradle is well documented.

All that said, there are conventions, idioms, and a certain way of thinking that will heighten your Gradle-fu. You will learn these on your own over time. However, attending the training course is going to be much more time efficient."

If you don't know what this is all about, then you should definitely be taking a look at Gradle.

* Howard Lewis Ship recommends Gradle too.