Chapter 9. Integration and migration
This chapter covers
- Importing existing Ant projects
- Using Ant tasks from Gradle
- Converting Maven pom.xml into Gradle projects
- Migration strategies from Ant and Maven to Gradle
- Comparing build outcomes and upgrade testing
Long-running development projects are usually heavily invested in established build tool infrastructure and logic. As one of the first build tools, Gradle acknowledges that moving to a new system requires strategic planning, knowledge transfer, and acquisition, while at the same time ensuring an unobstructed build and delivery process. Gradle provides powerful tooling to integrate existing build logic and alleviate a migration endeavor.
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