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What is Gradle?

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Gradle is an open-source build automation system that builds upon the concepts of
Apache
Ant and Apache Maven. Gradle has a proper programming language instead of XML
configuration file and the language is called ‘Groovy’.
Gradle uses a directed acyclic graph ("DAG") to determine the order in which tasks
can be
run.
Gradle was designed for multi-project builds, which can grow to be quite large. It
supports
incremental builds by intelligently determining which parts of the build tree are
up to date,
any task dependent only on those parts does not need to be re-executed.
Question: What Are Advantages of Gradle?
Gradle provides many advantages and here is a list
Declarative Builds: Probably one of the biggest advantage of Gradle is Groovy
language. Gradle provides declarative language elements. Which providea build-
byconvention
support for Java, Groovy, Web and Scala.
Structured Build: Gradle allows developers to apply common design principles to
their build. It provides a perfect structure for build, so that well-structured and
easily
maintained, comprehensible build structures can be built.
Deep API: Using this API, developers can monitor and customize its configuration
and execution behaviors.
Scalability: Gradle can easily increase productivity, from simple and single
project
builds to huge enterprise multi-project builds.
Multi-project builds: Gradle supports multi-project builds and also partial builds.
Build management: Gradle supports different strategies to manage project
dependencies.
First build integration tool − Gradle completely supports ANT tasks, Maven and lvy
repository infrastructure for publishing and retrieving dependencies. It also
provides a
converter for turning a Maven pom.xml to Gradle script.
Ease of migration: Gradle can easily adapt to any project structure.
Gradle Wrapper: Gradle Wrapper allows developers to execute Gradle builds on
machines where Gradle is not installed. This is useful for continuous integration
of
servers.
Free open source − Gradle is an open source project, and licensed under the
Apache Software License (ASL).
Groovy: Gradle's build scripts are written in Groovy, not XML. But unlike other
approaches this is not for simply exposing the raw scripting power of a dynamic
language. The whole design of Gradle is oriented towards being used as a language,
not as a rigid framework.

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