Hans Dockter
Founder of Gradle
Hans Dockter is the founder of Gradle Inc., a company whose purpose is to empower software development teams to reach their full potential for joy, creativity, and productivity. To address his own personal frustrations as a developer, Hans co-founded the Gradle Build Tool project which was named by TechCrunch as one of the top 20 most popular OSS projects. Gradle Build Tool is now downloaded more than 23 million times a month. He then led the development of Gradle Enterprise which today is the leading enabling solution for the practice of Developer Productivity Engineering.Previous to Gradle, Inc, Hans successfully led numerous large-scale enterprise builds and emerged as a thought leader in project automation. He is an advocate of Domain Driven Design, having taught classes and delivered presentations on this topic together with Eric Evans. Hans was also a committer for the JBoss project and founded the JBoss-IDE.
Presentations
Enterprise Gradle
1:30 PM MDT
In this talk we will cover many Gradle power features that are particularly helpful for the real heavy lifting often needed in enterprise builds.
We will start this session with the concept and advantages of autowiring the Task Dependency Graph based on the inputs and outputs. We will then talk in detail about the new dependency management features such as the new cache, customizable dynamic revision handling and customizable version conflict resolution. From there we'll explore the new extension mechanism for the Gradle DSL and introduce the Gradle daemon. We will also discuss our take on best practices for dealing with module dependencies in the enterprise and how this can be mapped with Gradle. Finally we will show how you can programatically customize the way the Gradle build model is mapped to the STS Gradle Eclipse plugin. All those features are presented in the context of our roadmap and what further improvement you can expect with future releases.