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.


Hans Dockter

About Hans Dockter

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.

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Luke Daley

About Luke Daley

Luke works @ Gradle Inc. building Gradle Enterprise. He's also an open source tragic and is the creator of Ratpack https://ratpack.io. When not hitting the keyboard, he's likely drinking IPA or playing guitar.

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