May your builds always succeeds!
Just finished the book “Building and Testing with Gradle” in this vacation, and here is my review.
First of all this book has a great Foreword by Ken Sipe, the CTO of Gradleware. I totally agree with him on
What I have discovered over the years as a software engineer is that in order to solve a problem best, I have to understand the model. The reason make wasn’t a great build tool for Java is that it didn’t have a way to express the model well. Ant gave us platform independence and a better vocabulary, but a weak model. Maven provided a stronger model, which is why so many people prefer it over Ant. The challenge for Maven is that it provided a “the one model to rule them all”. You’re able to express your build needs within that model and only that model.
Gradle fills the gap. Gradle provides a way of modeling a build system using a DSL with convention over configuration, yet allowing an enterprise to define its own model. It goes deeper than this, as explained in this introductory book by Matthew and Tim, but modeling by convention is truly a game changer for enterprise software development.
To simplify, Make has no build model, Ant has weak mod...... Read the full post
