Gradle Workshop

This two-part workshop provides a hands-on introduction to Gradle. You will learn the fundamentals of Gradle's build language, leverage some of its built-in tasks and plugins, use Gradle's Ant integration, learn how to manage dependencies with Gradle, and top it off with a multi-project build. Please bring your laptops! Familiarity with Java is assumed; familiarity with Groovy is a plus but not required.

n the Java build space, first there was Ant, which provided a reliable way to build without an IDE. Then there was Maven, which gave us standardization in build lifecycles and dependency management. Now… Enter the Gradle and find yourself immersed in a rich build language with the flexibility of Ant, the declarativeness of Maven, and a new level of sophistication that takes your builds further than ever before.

About Peter Niederwieser

Peter Niederwieser is a computer language enthusiast from Austria who has been using Java since the early days. Peter's work experience ranges from small start-ups to large enterprises like Siemens. His passion for software quality and continuous delivery invariably leads him to take the build master role on new projects, pushing project automation as far as he can. It also lead him to create Spock, an innovation-packed developer testing framework that is seeing increasing adoption around the globe.

Peter is an active member of the Groovy community, and can't sleep without his daily dose of Scala. When Peter isn't coding, you can find him speaking at conferences around the world, or pondering over a chess board.

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