What is Gradle?

Have you been hearing the term “Gradle” but not sure what it is? Let me give you a short and crisp overview. 

•      Gradle is a build management tool for the JVM.
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•      Gradle is based upon groovy scripting. But, you do not need to learn Groovy to understand it.

•      When you create a gradle project, you get build.gradle file and settings.gradle file whereas In Maven, you get POM.XML file.

•           In Build.gradle, you do not have to write dependencies using </ tag and /> tag.In Gradle, you can write your own tasks.No tags are used unlike Maven.

•       In Build.gradle, you do not have to write dependencies using </ tag and /> tag.In Gradle, you can write your own tasks.No tags are used unlike Maven

•        Gradle has good supoorts of IntelliJ which is IDE similar to NetBeans or Eclipse. You can create a gradle project  in IntelliJsuccessfully. Also, you can import an already existing gradle project in IntelliJ as well. 
•       Build.gradle has simple notation. You can easily understand what is written in gradle file.
•       Gradle uses dsl-domain specific language so its quite easy to maintain and work with it.

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