I left JavaOne 2011 with several take-aways. One of the most significant was a renewed interest in learning more about Gradle. In this post, I look at using Gradle and at migrating a simple Ant ...

Ant and Maven require XML, which -- in the eyes of some Java developers -- is a drag. More than a decade after Gradle's first release, the Java build tool is well-established, though still not the ...

Java developers can now run Gradle builds with JDK 11. The latest milestone release of the popular open source build automation tool (Gradle 5.0) also comes with a production-ready Kotlin DSL, ...

Gradle 7.0, the latest release of the popular software build tool leveraged in Android development and elsewhere, offers faster incremental builds as well as support for Java 16.

The latest monthly update to Java on Visual Studio Code adds a Gradle extension, simplifies Code Actions execution and leverages an "important milestone," the v1.0 release of a new language server ...

The latest version of the Gradle open-source build automation tool, just announced, comes with a number of upgrades, bug fixes, and highly anticipated support for building and testing Java modules, ...

This week's Java roundup for April 21st, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of Gradle 8.14; JBang introduces Jash, a Java library for shell scripts; the first release candidate of Hibern ...

Gradle works with Java, C/C++, and Groovy. It is also Google’s preferred tool for the development of applications for Android. What is Maven?

Now, changes in Java are increasing the pain across the board for enterprise development. “What’s interesting is that Java is becoming more complex. Version 8 was a big change with Lambdas and now ...