Session presented at the 6th IndicThreads.com Conference on Java held in Pune, India on 2-3 Dec. 2011. http://Java.IndicThreads.com -- This session will introduce the audience to Gradle, the various DSLs used to describe builds as well as the plugin infrastructure that allows for extending Gradle’s capabilities. - http://www.indicthreads.com/9265/simplifying-builds-with-gradle/

1. Simplifying builds
with Gradle
Saager Mhatre

2. dexterous

3. errata

4. script
simplifying builds
with gradle ^

5. disclaimer

7. simplifying build scripts
with gradle

8. build script

9. build

10. source artifacts

11. source artifacts

12. source artifacts
code
configuration

13. source artifacts
code
configuration

14. source artifacts
code classes
configuration generated code

15. script

16. more expressiveness
less ceremony

17. simplify

18. simplify… ?

19. simplify… ?
http://www.stickyminds.com/s.asp?F=S11633_MAGAZINE_2

20. simplify… ?
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

21. simplify… ?
http://blip.tv/clojure/stuart-halloway-simplicity-ain-t-easy-4842694

23. enough talk
let’s build something

28. conditional execution

29. static analysis

30. execution profiling

31. insanity ensues

32. http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~newhall/unixhelp/javamakefiles.html

33. http://ant.apache.org/manual/tutorial-HelloWorldWithAnt.html#enhance

34. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-antxsl/

35. http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-pom.html#Super_POM

36. http://xkcd.com/303/

37. Finally, sometimes,
simplicity grows out of adversity
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simplicity-Architect

38. gradle

39. talk is cheap,
let’s see some code
https://github.com/dexterous/crave2gradle

40. for more
gradle goodness
http://mrhaki.blogspot.com/search/label/Gradle%3AGoodness

41. a community
that keeps on giving
https://github.com/search?type=Repositories&language=&q=gradle+plugin

42. “maven has me
in its evil clutches!”
https://github.com/jbaruch/maven2gradle

43. gradleware
http://gradleware.com

44. http://spkr8.com/t/8377
http://j11.indicthreads.com/feedback