Gradle - the Innovation continues

The Gradle development team have not been taking it easy since the release of Gradle 1.0. New features and innovations are constantly being added, rough edges are being smoothed and the platform continues to expand. In this session we’ll explore the most notable additions to Gradle since the release of 1.0 and preview some of the new and exciting features just over the horizon with Gradle founder and Gradleware CEO Hans Dockter and Gradle core developer Peter Niederwieser.

Gradle continues to evolve with a high velocity to gain new capabilities, features and increased build performance.

We’ll dig into to some of the features incorporated since the 1.0 release, such as:

• Maven import and archetype support
• Parallel task execution
• Improved Dependency Reporting
• Dependency management improvements that make Grade the best dependency system out there.
• Additions to the task model like soft dependencies and finalizer tasks.
• Gradle Android and C/C++ Support
• Improvements to the Tooling API (i.e. embedded Gradle)
• Better scalability for large scale enterprise builds
• Using Jenkins slaves for distributed test execution.
• Deep integration with Arquillian for deploying to web and JEE servers.

We’ll also take a sneak peak at some of the upcoming features that will soon be available in Gradle.