Chapter 5. Build processes
This chapter covers
- Adding Groovy to Ant builds
- Using Maven with Groovy
- Groovy Grapes and @Grab
- The future: Gradle
Building source code is almost always a pain point in development organizations. An ideal build process is automated end-to-end, including compilation, running tests, generating reports, and producing any required artifacts. The process needs to be fast enough that it can be done frequently, especially given modern agile approaches, and yet flexible enough to adapt to the exigencies of individual teams.
In the Java world two primary approaches to automated builds have emerged over time. Both are open source projects from Apache. The first is Ant (http://ant.apache.org), which uses a library of ...
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