Comments on: Maven – Pain = Gradle? http://www.alittlemadness.com/2008/11/28/maven-pain-gradle/ A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free. -Nikos Kazantzakis Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:45:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jason http://www.alittlemadness.com/2008/11/28/maven-pain-gradle/comment-page-1/#comment-146858 Jason Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:37:26 +0000 http://www.alittlemadness.com/2008/11/28/maven-pain-gradle/#comment-146858 Hi Basil, Thanks for the kind comment. I have been using Gradle a bit more now and do quite like it. Although the devs have put a lot of work into the User Guide there are still things that are mysterious, but the mailing list response time is pretty good so you can always post questions there too. Re: integration with Ant, Gradle achieves this via the nice AntBuilder that is part of Groovy: http://groovy.codehaus.org/Using+Ant+from+Groovy It gives you a succinct groovy syntax for calling Ant tasks. Hi Basil,

Thanks for the kind comment. I have been using Gradle a bit more now and do quite like it. Although the devs have put a lot of work into the User Guide there are still things that are mysterious, but the mailing list response time is pretty good so you can always post questions there too.

Re: integration with Ant, Gradle achieves this via the nice AntBuilder that is part of Groovy:

http://groovy.codehaus.org/Using+Ant+from+Groovy

It gives you a succinct groovy syntax for calling Ant tasks.

]]> By: Basil Vandegriend http://www.alittlemadness.com/2008/11/28/maven-pain-gradle/comment-page-1/#comment-146692 Basil Vandegriend Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:29:55 +0000 http://www.alittlemadness.com/2008/11/28/maven-pain-gradle/#comment-146692 Nice article. I had already checked out the Gradle getting started, but didn't get a good sense of what the Java plugin does for you by convention. Your article did a good job communicating that and has gotten me even more interested in giving Gradle a try. I'm especially intrigued by Gradle's integration with pre-existing Ant tasks. Any experience with that? Thanks! Nice article. I had already checked out the Gradle getting started, but didn’t get a good sense of what the Java plugin does for you by convention. Your article did a good job communicating that and has gotten me even more interested in giving Gradle a try.

I’m especially intrigued by Gradle’s integration with pre-existing Ant tasks. Any experience with that?

Thanks!

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